Gene Kearns wrote:
On Wed, 17 Jan 2007 07:59:58 -0500, Reginald P. Smithers III penned
the following well considered thoughts to the readers of rec.boats:

JohnH wrote:
On Tue, 16 Jan 2007 20:47:11 -0500, Gene Kearns
wrote:

... at least as a subject line. It's driving my anti-virus software
nuts.... and you get deleted without any chance of being read....
I don't recall seeing any dots used as the subject, although I've used a
couple myself in the text portion within the past few weeks.

Actually, I'm wondering why anyone would put the dot in the subject line.
If the dot is to affect a thread, then changing the subject would change
the thread, no?

This bears some testing.
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Gene,
Why do dots affect your antivirus?

I'm not entirely sure, but it appears that it saw the subject as "."
which it flagged as suspicious and asked me if I wanted to delete the
message body. Seeing no point in reading about the subject "." I told
it to delete the message(s).....

It seems to me that Chuckie dots are making your life easier.