From: jimen AT adtech-inc DOT com (Jimen Ching) Subject: RE: Small request... 17 Apr 1998 06:11:42 -0700 Sender: root AT cygnus DOT com Message-ID: <01BD694A.AFA78650.jimen.cygnus.gnu-win32@adtech-inc.com> Reply-To: "jimen AT adtech-inc DOT com" To: "gnu-win32 AT cygnus DOT com" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" On Wednesday, April 15, 1998 8:34 AM, Mumit Khan [SMTP:khan AT xraylith DOT wisc DOT edu] wrote: > Because it makes the subject line longer making > it hard to quickly scan articles by subject -- very important for those who > get tons of messages. If the subject line can't handle 9 more characters, then leaving out those 9 characters will still be too long. You gain nothing from leaving out the prefix. --jc - For help on using this list (especially unsubscribing), send a message to "gnu-win32-request AT cygnus DOT com" with one line of text: "help".