Path: utzoo!censor!geac!jtsv16!uunet!super!grantham From: grantham@super.ORG (Jon Grantham) Newsgroups: news.newusers.questions Subject: Re: L Message-ID: <12689@super.ORG> Date: 9 Aug 89 02:12:02 GMT References: <488@sppy00.UUCP> <57028@tut.cis.ohio-state.edu> <1525@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> Reply-To: grantham@super.UUCP (Jon Grantham) Organization: Supercomputing Research Center Lines: 28 In article <1525@crdgw1.crd.ge.com> barnett@crdgw1.crd.ge.com (Bruce Barnett) writes: >Inserting a Control-L into a news message is not a good thing to do. Try telling that to the folks in rec.arts.movies. The lack of insertion of Control-L has been the cause of major flamage over there. People get really, really upset if you spoil the ending of Batman for them. Or Citizen Kane. >Some terminals and/or news readers do not pause when they see ^L >In some cases - it might clear the screen or do something equally offensive. You take the risk -- mess up a few people's screens, or get tons of hate mail and flamed all over the newsgroup for revealing the suprise ending to "Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure." >Instead - just insert a few blank lines if you want to delay the >punchline to a joke. But that won't really protect people from movie spoilers. >Some news readers will pause before they see the character sequence >preceeding a signature: >-- But not all will. And you'll make the people who don't have that feature *really, really* mad at you. If you choose to post spoilers without ^L, that's your prerogative. But don't say I didn't warn you. -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- grantham@super.org uunet!super!grantham Jon_Grantham@ub.cc.umich.edu