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From: dyer@vaxuum.DEC (Example #22)
Newsgroups: net.general
Subject: Re: The Bug Lives
Message-ID: <406@decwrl.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 22-May-84 08:25:16 EDT
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Posted: Tue May 22 08:25:16 1984
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Re: The Bug Lives______________________________________________________________

[ If this line is eaten; and nobody sees it; was it ever really here? ]

	There's been some confusion lately about what the bug is.  It looks
like a number of people just put it in without knowing why.
	The bug works as follows:  If your first line begins with whitespace,
some sites (with old software) will chomp up some, most, or all of your ar-
ticle.  This I know because the very first article I sent got chomped.  I
started it with a tab.
	The two workarounds I've seen for it is (1) leave the first line of
your article blank, and (2) put a throwaway line in as your first line (making
sure that there's no whitespace in front of *it*).
	There seems to be an idea floating around that the first line some-
times gets eaten, and that's why it's put there.  Is that true?  I've never
seen the line *not* there, but then again, how could I?
		<_Jym_>
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