It would be perceived by me if anyone had replied to such a message, if I
followed the "bug" explanation correctly.

Go back to the thread I referenced, view all messages, sort by subject
line. Do you see one set of messages without the OT(colon) prepend and
another set with, probably sorted in different places in the alphabet?

More, USENET being what it is, someone would have complained
about it in the years I've been doing this.

Ummmm... so?

How? I see no such artifact of "screwed up" sorting, and I've been
sorting by thread for quite a while.

Yanno, I don't have a problem with lines longer than 70 characters. My
newsreader wraps them for me. Why should I wrap my lines for other people?

Jose
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