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4993: Re: [MUD-Dev] META: Broken mail headers

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From: "Alex Oren" <alexo@bigfoot.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Tue, 24 Mar 1998 15:21:28 GMT
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On Fri, 20 Mar 1998 16:33:32 PST8PDT, J C Lawrence wrote:

} On Tue, 17 Mar 1998 07:12:02 PST8PDT 
} Alex Oren<alexo@bigfoot.com> wrote:
} 
} > A humble request: Is it possible to fix the single/double space
} > problem in subjects?  Currently, most of the discussion threads in
} > my DB are fragmented into:
} 
} > [MUD-Dev] Subject ^ 
} 
} > and
} 
} > [MUD-Dev] Subject ^^
} 
} Writing as list owner:
} 
}   I've tracked this problem down to being caused by two of our more
} active posters.  One of them (well, their software actually) randomly
} inserts TAB characters into subject lines, and the other extra spaces.
} Yes, the list software should/could strip them back to normalcy.

Can't those posters tweak their s/w to avoid such behavior?

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Have fun,
Alex.