# "Quotes" in subject lines

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-in-subject-lines/77534>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [August 22, 2001, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-in-subject-lines/77534 "2001-08-22T13:40:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![AWB](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/bb73d2/32.png) [@AWB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AWB)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 1:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-in-subject-lines/77534/1 "2001-08-22T13:40:20Z")

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**Author:** ![UncleBeer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/977dab/32.png) [@UncleBeer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBeer)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2001, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/quotes-in-subject-lines/77534/2 "2001-08-22T14:44:28Z")

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It’s the _preview_ that kills the text inside and behind the quotation marks. Here’s the thread with my experimental data.

[http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=30833](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=30833)