Forum: Athelstan BBS

Re: qwk 25 char subj line

From Mauro Veiga@4:801/194 to AUGUST ABOLINS on Fri Jan 15 10:54:00 2021

Quoting August Abolins to Dale Shipp <=-

But QWK's 25 char limit in the subject s cutting off my beautifully thought out subjects! LOL

And yours seems to even cut them down further to about 20 chars. :(

Your subject line for something like:
FidoGazette Vol 13 no 17 Page: 7
FidoGazette Vol 13 no 17 Page: 6
FidoGazette Vol 13 no 17 Page: 5

..would look all the same in your lists:
FidoGazette Vol 13 no 17

I dunno how you can accept that! :/

The "future" of longer subject line awaits you!

The Bluewave standard accepts long titles and much more useful
information than QWK and QWKE. It is a pity that the developers
insist on poor QWK or a little better QWKE instead of adopting a
much higher standard like Bluewave.

.. I had a little trouble
getting the setup.exe to cooperate. "not a wn32 program" error. Bad
archive? Maybe the archive is listed somewhere else to try?

More likely, it is a 16 bit program. It would need WINXP or so to install.

Indeed. I was attempting to try in on my XP. No go. :( No
"future" for 16bit.

With the advancement of emulators, 16bits will never die. :-)

... QWK: The VHS of offline mail formats.
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