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From: rtucker@worf.infonet.net (Ryan Tucker)
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Subject: Talk: IDs
Date: 14 Sep 1994 07:48:35 -0500
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Bob Allison (boba@wwa.com) wrote:
>    Originally, I asked, since most people prefer having an ID on a 
> subject line, why not put them at the end to get them out of our 
> collective face?

Because ReallyStupidNewsReaders chop 'em off ... I know from experience 
that NEWSRDR for VMS systems amputates subjects after a really small space.

[...]
>    OK, putting them at the end won't work.  So what could be done to keep 
> them, but also make them less annoying?  How about all lower case, in ()?
> I did this post that way as an example.

I don't find them annoying... in fact, I would like them more visable, 
like the NET-HAPPENINGS mailing list, where I can just ZOT the ones I'm 
not interested in.  For example...

QUESTION> Does FOO Utilites for ASCII work on XYZ platform?

... would be alot more skippable than

(question) Does FOO Utili....

... when you're already late for work and you only have enough time to 
get a few ASCII pics.

Being ASCII Artists, aren't we supposed to make things visable?  :-)

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