"Jack Stein" wrote

Anyway, I reckon colons are OK in the subject line, and any newsreader
that handles them as some sort of special character instead of simple
text is wrong?

"Reckon" what you will ... the fact remains that "OT:" is indeed removed by
some mail/news clients from threaded replies. This fact is amply documented
in countless threads hereabouts that are marked thusly, occasionally
complained about or blamed on the poster of subsequent replies, AND, more to
the point:

.... a SOLUTION was provided!

As far as the rest of your post, give it up ... this is the 21st century and
OS/2 is no longer in the running.

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