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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 13 Jun 1998.
Re: Dear AgonyAuntStein 980611

Re: Dear AgonyAuntStein 980611


In article <358...@sympatico.ca>, 
Pete Casso <pet...@sympatico.ca> writes:
>>  I would strongly advise against ending your article names with a
>>  number, because some major servers use this as a critierion  for
>>  blocking them as spam.  Stick a "-stein" after it or something.
>
>Thanks for the advise. I will still keep the date in the cartoon panel, but
>not in the subject line of the posting. Cartoons in newspapers have neither
>unique subtitle nor unique date nor any kind of unique code either.

 A date is fine, just don't put it tight at the end; put something 
 else after.  Newsguy (formerly Zippo) is the most obvious one that
 junks titles ending in a number as spam, but there are others.

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From: Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine <dav...@xemu.demon.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Dear AgonyAuntStein 980611
Date: 1998/06/13
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