Post by thread:[PIC:] PIC/AVR PIC vs AVR (ATMEL)

Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote: > Jonathan Johnson wrote : > >> Actually I believe we came to an amendment awhile ago and >> relocated the colon to INSIDE the brackets due to crappy >> ol' outlook(yes I am a user myself) stripping the tags. > > Actualy, it's my firm believing that those problems > ("crappy ol' outlook stripping the tags") *begun* when > the colon was moved *inside* the brackets. I never saw that > problem before, and I always put the colon *outside* > of the brackets in my own posts. Actually (;-) it all started many moons ago after MS put out some kind of update that resulted in Outlook Express messing the tags up. > It's my understanding that Outlook sometimes mixes up > the "[xxx:]" tags with the normal "Re:" or "Fw:" tags and strips > them (and leaves a single "]") to avoid multiple tags in the subject. > When using the "[xxx]:" tags, this never happens (for me, at least). > I have *only* seen the stripping of tags when the colon has been > inside the brackets. Outlook Express is the primary culprit and it happens to me all the time, usually when replying to the original post. > I'v still not seen any reasonable reason to move the colon > inside the brackets and I believe my explanation above > is pretty plausable... I think that's because you are using Outlook and not OE. ;-) > I'm reading piclist using Outlook 2000 SR1, b.t.w. Right. ;-) >> tag corrected ;-) > > I'm not sure it was... :-) :-) I bet it was. ;-) michael brown -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The list server can filter out subtopics (like ads or off topics) for you. See http://www.piclist.com/#topics

michael brown wrote : > Outlook Express is the primary culprit and it happens to me all the > time, usually when replying to the original post. OK. I think I understand what happens now. The reason *I* see this problem, is that someone *else* (using OE) has replied with a corrupted tag, not that *my* tool (Outlook) corrupted it... So it's "colon inside" that is the rule then :-) Sorry for the fuzz... Jan-Erik. -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.

On Sunday 18 April 2004 10:56, Jan-Erik Soderholm wrote: > michael brown wrote : > > Outlook Express is the primary culprit and it happens to me all > > the time, usually when replying to the original post. > > OK. > I think I understand what happens now. > > The reason *I* see this problem, is that someone *else* > (using OE) has replied with a corrupted tag, not that *my* > tool (Outlook) corrupted it... > > So it's "colon inside" that is the rule then :-) Maybe the incorrect signature should be fixed then, to be consistant with the website... Matt -- Matt N. Marsh Email: spam_OUTmattTakeThisOuTmattmarsh.net Yahoo: marshmn Web: http://www.mattmarsh.net/ Jabber: .....mattmarshKILLspam@spam@jabber.org MSN: mattKILLspammattmarsh.net ICQ: 250467363 AIM: MattMarshUK -- http://www.piclist.com hint: The PICList is archived three different ways. See http://www.piclist.com/#archives for details.