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Re: Subject and Header Lines

2001-08-06 by mwesley250@earthlink.net

Additional note on subject lines.

PLEASE DO NOT USE SPECIAL CHARACTERS IN SUBJECT LINES.

Unfortunately special characters also include many standard European 
characters that are not included in the American alphabet. My 
apologies to our many non-U.S. group members. Using special 
characters in the body of the message does not appear to be a problem.

Some folks have written very nice subject lines such as:

Re: Hahnemühle in Los Angeles, CA:Freestyle

Which when displayed on the group homepage (not on e-mailed posts 
fortunately) are rendered by Yahoo for reasons unknown as:

RE:_=5BDigital_BW=5D_Re:_Hahnem=FC 

Basically the "ü" causes Yahoo to lose it's mind and to start 
substituting garbage. (Perhaps the hexadecimal values for the special 
character(s)?)

Your patience is greatly appreciated.

Martin


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