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Message no. 1
From: Gurth <gurth@******.NL>
Subject: [OT] &amp in subject lines (see? They change! :)
Date: Fri, 13 Feb 1998 21:59:01 +0100
Mon goose said on 3:24/13 Feb 98...

> PS- whats that damn "&amp" thing that pops up in some people's topic
> headers? It gets in there and never leaves, like sand in your
> underware!

An HTML mailer, probably. "&amp;" is the HTML code for an ampersand --
that's "&" to you and me -- because a &-sign in HTML is used to indicate
a
special code; for example ">" is "&gt;" so for a plan
"&" you need a code
too.

So, my guess is that when someone with an HTML mailer replies to a message
that has a "&" in the subject line, it gets replaced by
"&amp;" to keep
things complying to HTML rules and readable. Too bad most of us don't use
HTML mailers...

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Message no. 2
From: Spike <u5a77@*****.CS.KEELE.AC.UK>
Subject: Re: [OT] &amp in subject lines (see? They change! :)
Date: Sat, 14 Feb 1998 00:47:02 +0000
And verily, did Gurth hastily scribble thusly...
|So, my guess is that when someone with an HTML mailer replies to a message
|that has a "&" in the subject line, it gets replaced by
"&amp;" to keep
|things complying to HTML rules and readable. Too bad most of us don't use
|HTML mailers...

Don't you mean it's too bad some people DO?

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