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In a message on Sunday 04-24-16 Tony Langdon said to Maurice Kinal:

TL> mysN -=> Maurice Kinal wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

Good morning Tonu,

 MK> Note that this reply's subject line is 70 characters which means that
 MK> if you reply to it should result in trucation simply by adding on the
 MK> objectionable "Re: " part.

TL> Yes, that limitation of QWK was _very_ short sighted by the original
TL> designers.
TL>  I can't fathom why they thought 25 characters was enough for a
TL> subject line. Both Bluewave and QWKE address this.

You have to remember, that when those standards were set, most
communication was via POTS, and the transfer was at 300 or 1200 cps.

Every character took its own time to be transferred, and your phone bill
grew with the time on the trunk line, except perhaps for local calls.

I've been there!


Have a nice day,

Holger

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