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    From Al@21:4/106 to apam on Sun Dec 15 13:54:06 2019
    Hello Apam,

    We seem to have short subject lines when posting online on the BBS. Is it possible at some point that we can enter longer subject lines?

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (21:4/106)
  • From apam@21:1/126 to Al on Mon Dec 16 19:34:18 2019
    Hello Apam,

    We seem to have short subject lines when posting online on the BBS.
    Is it possible at some point that we can enter longer subject
    lines?

    It's possible I suppose. How long do you want it?

    I also got asked today to add deleting support, that seems to have
    opened up a can of worms in the message base stuff.

    Andrew

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  • From Al@21:4/106 to apam on Mon Dec 16 13:00:18 2019
    We seem to have short subject lines when posting online on the
    BBS. Is it possible at some point that we can enter longer
    subject lines?

    It's possible I suppose. How long do you want it?

    I would say just take what the user gives you. There may be a standard
    with regard to the subject line but I don't recall. If so we'll want to
    stick with that.

    I also got asked today to add deleting support, that seems to have
    opened up a can of worms in the message base stuff.

    If you ever see a can of worms by all means.. step back a bit.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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    * Origin: The Rusty MailBox - Penticton, BC Canada (21:4/106)
  • From Oli@21:1/151 to Al on Mon Dec 16 23:40:01 2019
    On Mon, 16 Dec 2019 13:00:18 -0800
    "Al -> apam" <0@106.4.21> wrote:

    We seem to have short subject lines when posting online on the
    BBS. Is it possible at some point that we can enter longer
    subject lines?

    It's possible I suppose. How long do you want it?

    I would say just take what the user gives you. There may be a standard
    with regard to the subject line but I don't recall. If so we'll want
    to stick with that.

    IIRC, JAM allows 100 chars. Fido's upper limit is 72, it's 80 chars minus "Subject " (8 chars).

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    * Origin: REPLY (21:1/151)