Microsoft, in its infinite wisdom, determined that most people use email for
FW: RE: FW: FW: FW: RE: FW: WAY FUNNY!  FW: FW: FW: RE: What to do about 
ground hogs - you'll laugh!!!  :):):)

And subsequently determined that the colon was the key - with that bit 
of knowledge they use some simple algorithm to delete portions of the 
subject line to help limit the number of RE: and FW: that occur in a 
given message.

Instead of a user problem, it became a technical problem, which they 
'fixed', and which caused a problem with the list and had us doing all 
sorts of things like putting the colons inside the brackets [OT:] etc.  
Messed up a lot of filters (though I haven't had a problem since I 
changed mine to simply filter at "[OT", "[PIC", etc).

Since the new list does not need the colon, it's safer not to use it 
since outlook users replying to your message might inadvertently chop 
off the tag and send the message to the Untagged section, instead of EE, 
PIC, AVR, OT, etc.

-Adam

Philip Stortz wrote:

>what problems does it cause?  i like it as a delimiter, i like it a lot
>actually.  i might even start adding it to replies.
>
>Jake Anderson wrote:
>  
>
>>the colon is no longer required
>>and given the problems it causes we are better off without it
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