• The NEXT thing you need to do is make sure that the user "

    From August Abolins@2:460/58 to Flavio Bessa on Mon Jan 11 05:47:39 2021
    NICE! Will give it a try later on

    The NEXT thing you need to do is make sure that the user "Fido2telebot" is in your contact list. That's the agent/bot that will be delivering the netmail.


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  • From Nigel Reed@1:124/5016 to August Abolins on Sun Jan 10 21:29:27 2021
    August wrote:
    NICE! Will give it a try later on

    The NEXT thing you need to do is make sure that the user "Fido2telebot" is
    in your contact list. That's the agent/bot that will be delivering the netmail.

    What you need to do is stop using subject lines that are so long that some
    fido systems truncate them.
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  • From August Abolins@1:153/757.21 to Nigel Reed on Sun Jan 10 22:41:00 2021
    Hello Nigel!

    ** On Sunday 10.01.21 - 21:29, Nigel Reed wrote to August Abolins:

    What you need to do is stop using subject lines that are so
    long that some fido systems truncate them.

    I think of those as a kind of excerpt of the message within. ;)
    It's pretty cool. It's much better than people never changing
    the subject on fidonet at all. ;)

    Other than that, that subj line is limited to 40 chars. If the
    author omits creating one, the system will use the 1st 40 chars
    of the message for the subj.

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  • From Nigel Reed@1:124/5016 to August Abolins on Mon Jan 11 01:02:56 2021
    August wrote:
    Hello Nigel!

    ** On Sunday 10.01.21 - 21:29, Nigel Reed wrote to August Abolins:

    What you need to do is stop using subject lines that are so
    long that some fido systems truncate them.

    I think of those as a kind of excerpt of the message within. ;)
    It's pretty cool. It's much better than people never changing
    the subject on fidonet at all. ;)

    And then it is not threaded.

    Other than that, that subj line is limited to 40 chars. If the
    author omits creating one, the system will use the 1st 40 chars
    of the message for the subj.

    Annoying.
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  • From August Abolins@2:460/58 to Nigel Reed on Mon Jan 11 12:24:11 2021
    August wrote:
    Hello Nigel!

    ** On Sunday 10.01.21 - 21:29, Nigel Reed wrote to August Abolins:

    What you need to do is stop using subject lines that are so
    long that some fido systems truncate them.

    I think of those as a kind of excerpt of the message within. ;)
    It's pretty cool. It's much better than people never changing
    the subject on fidonet at all. ;)

    And then it is not threaded.

    Other than that, that subj line is limited to 40 chars. If the
    author omits creating one, the system will use the 1st 40 chars
    of the message for the subj.

    Annoying.

    Threading works fine via msgid and replyid fine. The long subj lines are well supported in other readers. Both details work great with openxp and thunderbird. Cheers! :)


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  • From August Abolins@1:153/757.21 to Nigel Reed on Mon Jan 11 05:43:00 2021
    Hello Nigel!

    ** On Monday 11.01.21 - 04:14, Nigel Reed wrote to August Abolins:

    August wrote:
    Threading works fine via msgid and replyid fine. The long
    subj lines are well supported in other readers. Both details
    work great with openxp and thunderbird. Cheers! :)

    No worries, I'll just unsub from this annoyance. Enjoy.

    Annoyance is subjective and any easy word to throw around.

    Here is the threading result of the string of messages including
    at the point you jumped in. The post (in blue) is your last one
    on the way out. The thread is fully maintained. Methinks that
    you may have a threading problem on your system instead. ;)

    URL: https://susepaste.org/5087600

    Your concerns could be great subject matter in FIDONET.TELEGRAM
    and would be most welcome!

    The Fidone-Telegram project is still quite young. Everything
    "new" has opposition.

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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757.2 to August Abolins on Mon Jan 11 05:48:52 2021
    Re: The NEXT thing you need to do is make sure that the user "
    By: August Abolins to Nigel Reed on Sun Jan 10 2021 10:41 pm

    Other than that, that subj line is limited to 40 chars. If the
    author omits creating one, the system will use the 1st 40 chars
    of the message for the subj.

    I think the subject line can be up to 72 chars.

    That's an old standard. The only time you'll see short subject lines is if someone enters a short subject, or if a QWK reader cuts it short.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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  • From August Abolins@1:153/757.21 to Alan Ianson on Mon Jan 11 09:46:00 2021
    Hello Alan!

    ** On Monday 11.01.21 - 05:48, Alan Ianson wrote to August Abolins:

    I think the subject line can be up to 72 chars.

    That's an old standard. The only time you'll see short
    subject lines is if someone enters a short subject, or if a
    QWK reader cuts it short.

    I've constructed my reply to this topic in FIDONET.TELEGRAM.

    And.. I wanted to get the hang of doing that with OpenXP anyway!

    :D

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  • From August Abolins@1:153/757.2 to Alan Ianson on Mon Jan 11 10:32:39 2021
    Other than that, that subj line is limited to 40 chars. If the
    author omits creating one, the system will use the 1st 40 chars
    of the message for the subj.

    I think the subject line can be up to 72 chars.

    I see that on your Synchronet web interface there is even much more room than 40. Looks good! Again.. a wordier subject can serve as a pretty good preview of
    what's inside.

    That's an old standard. The only time you'll see short subject lines is if someone enters a short subject, or if a QWK reader cuts it short.

    I think Stas pick 40 because it's about the best length when viewing on the Telegram app for smartphone before the line would wrap. So, we get the potential for a "long" subject, but not too long so wraps and looks ugly in the
    app.
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  • From Alan Ianson@1:153/757.2 to August Abolins on Mon Jan 11 11:21:37 2021
    Re: telegram subj = 40 chars max
    By: August Abolins to Alan Ianson on Mon Jan 11 2021 10:32 am

    I see that on your Synchronet web interface there is even much more room than 40. Looks good! Again.. a wordier subject can serve as a pretty good preview of what's inside.

    Yes, and subjects can be that long.

    I think Stas pick 40 because it's about the best length when viewing on the Telegram app for smartphone before the line would wrap. So, we get
    the
    potential for a "long" subject, but not too long so wraps and looks ugly in the app.

    Yep, that's a good length. In a lot of header displays they get lost after that length anyway.

    Ttyl :-),
    Al

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