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echo: asian_link
to: MAURICE KINAL
from: ALAN IANSON
date: 2016-06-18 16:16:00
subject: it`s the way you ride the

TID: Mystic BBS 1.12 A21
-=> Maurice Kinal wrote to Alan Ianson <=-

 MK> Yes.  From this angle it appears to get truncated at 60 characters
 MK> rather than the 72 characters as per traditional ftn specs for the
 MK> subject.  This could be significant if subject is used to trigger a
 MK> response which it sometimes is, such as in areafixes or file requests.

Ah.. I was not aware of this, or even that there was a spec.

 MK> Please note if a bluewave offline editor responds as they won't prepend
 MK> a 'Re: ' to the original subject since it is greater than 69
 MK> characters.  That is why I call it a Goldilocks subject.

I am replying with multimail just to see if anything changes.

Do you know where I can findthis spec? Being on spec is one of the design
goals of mystic so..


 Ttyl :-),
         Al

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