Re: [NTLK] Growing subject lines in replies

From: Eric L. Strobel (fyzycyst_at_comcast.net)
Date: Wed Jul 10 2002 - 22:28:34 EDT


somewhere near the temporal coordinates of 7/10/02 1:03 PM, the entity known
as Joshua Johnston transmitted the following from flagg_at_midmaine.com:

>
> I'd suspect that the %20's and similar in subject lines is actually
> related in one way or another to web-based email. Web browsers often
> use %20 to substitute as a space, and if a webmail program is used to
> read and reply to a message, there's a pretty decent chance that it can
> cause that. So if anyone here makes a post and others se a %20 in it,
> let's find out if the poster is using a webmail program.
>

Well, for those that know how to decypher such things, here's the headers as
I see them on my end... (I've left off all the "received from"'s)

Date: Tue, 09 Jul 2002 23:45:11 -0400 (EDT)
From: Rgdtad_at_aol.com
Subject: Re: [NTLK]
 %20[NTLK]%20OT%20Trolls%20and%20black%20holes%2526In-Reply-To=%2526lt;20020
70
Sender: newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net
To: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
Errors-to: newtontalk-bounce_at_newtontalk.net
Reply-to: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
Message-id: <1a2.4eb2e69.2a5d07c7_at_aol.com>
MIME-version: 1.0
X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 102
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-transfer-encoding: 8bit
Precedence: bulk
Delivered-to: newtontalk_at_newtontalk.net
X-archive-position: 36124
X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0
X-original-sender: Rgdtad_at_aol.com
X-List: newtontalk
List-Unsubscribe:
 <mailto:listar_at_newtontalk.net?subject=unsubscribe$20newtontalk>
List-Help: <http://www.newtontalk.net/>
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- Eric.

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Eric Strobel (fyzycyst_at_NOSPAM^mailaps.org)

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