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  1. Xref: sparky alt.bbs:8219 comp.bbs.misc:1892
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  3. From: peter@globv1.hacktic.nl (Peter Busser)
  4. Newsgroups: alt.bbs,comp.bbs.misc
  5. Subject: Re: DTS-0001 proposed standard
  6. Message-ID: <1993Jan26.143225.1395@globv1.hacktic.nl>
  7. Date: 26 Jan 93 14:32:25 GMT
  8. References: <24JAN93.01717854.0033@UNBVM1.CSD.UNB.CA> <C1F79n.D60@cs.psu.edu>
  9. Organization: Global Village 1
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  12. fenner@postscript.cs.psu.edu (Bill Fenner) writes:
  13.  
  14. >|        REPLYTOPIC  = <topic reply is about>
  15. >||           Range:          String not more than 32 characters in length.
  16.  
  17. >This one is especially ridiculous, and makes this format completley useless
  18. >for use on BBS's that have USENET - subjects are quite often longer than
  19. >32 characters.
  20.  
  21. Not just for USENET, FidoNet uses 72 characters for the subject if I remember
  22. correctly.
  23.  
  24. Greetings,
  25. Peter Busser
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