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From: rpw3@fortune.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.followup
Subject: Re: Re: ANSI mode for text enhancement? - (nf)
Message-ID: <3069@fortune.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 16-Apr-84 04:03:03 EST
Article-I.D.: fortune.3069
Posted: Mon Apr 16 04:03:03 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 17-Apr-84 06:58:18 EST
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fortune!rpw3    Apr 15 22:14:00 1984

<<More no-no control char flames>>

Unfortunately, the news software used here does NOT strip the control
characters out of messages when it passes them on (just when it
displays them maybe?)! When it passes news to the pseudo-host 'notes',
the "letter bombs" [well named, Mark] are still ticking.

In particular, stuff gatewayed from some ARPA sites tends to have
garbage in the subject line, like <DEL>'s and <FF>'s and <VT>'s.

Form feeds clear the screen, on my terminal. (Real "cute" at 9600 baud
to get a joke with a form feed after the "Question:" part... ya' have
to play Karnac for real!)

The last message I saw where somebody tried to "highlight" a word, they
did it in BOTH the title and the text, it threw my terminal into a funny
blink mode. The really annoying problem is that until enough new notes get
posted to that group to push his header off the index page, every time
I finish with that notesfile, 'notes' is going to show me the index
page with the bomb in it, and I'm going to have to (1) go to the next
news group, (2) escape to the shell, (3) run a fixit program ("tset"). Ugh!

Rob Warnock

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