On Wed, 01 Feb 2006 05:51:24 +0000, DoN. Nichols wrote:
According to Dave Hinz :

Well, they're additive. So you could kill any post that has two or more
commas in the Newsgroups: line (takes out posts crossposted to 3 or more
groups), any post with OT: in the subject line

One problem with that last one is that Outlook Express (and
possibly some other software which pretends to be a newsreader, but I've
only verified it on OE) take *any* two-letter pair followed by a colon
':' as being "" in some language or other, strips it off, and
replaces it with its own "". I've seen it happen *many* times in
this newsgroup.

You have _got_ to be kidding. (said in an amazed, WTF were they
thinking kind of a way, not in a "I don't believe you, DoN" kind of way)

So -- something other than "OT:" is needed. Perhaps "[OT]" will
work well enough, and not be wiped off branches of the thread map by
anyone replying with OE as a newsreader.

Maybe we just nuke Redmond from orbit. It's the only way to be sure.