Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!husc6!rutgers!ucsd!nprdc!halff
From: halff@nprdc.arpa (Henry Halff)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.hypercard
Subject: Subject fields in headers (was ********)
Summary: don't use asterisks in headers
Message-ID: <1231@arctic.nprdc.arpa>
Date: 28 Dec 88 18:45:17 GMT
References: <18258@agate.BERKELEY.EDU>
Sender: news@nprdc.arpa
Reply-To: halff@nprdc.arpa (Henry Halff)
Organization: Halff Resources, Inc.
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Asterisks are wild-card characters in UN*X.  News processors like rn
get terribley confused when they encounter a subject line with nothing
but asterisks in it.  Use real words in the subject line pls.

hh