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From: ins_apmj@jhunix.UUCP (Patrick M Juola)
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Subject: Re: Please desist from embedding Ctrl-L's
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Date: Fri, 23-May-86 10:27:43 EDT
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In article <775@brl-smoke.ARPA> wmartin@brl-smoke.ARPA (Will Martin ) writes:
>I have noticed a distressing trend lately -- some posters embed
>numerous CTRL-L characters in their postings.
>
>The only reason to include Ctrl-L's in a posting is to paginate a long
>document into actual printed-output pages,... [remainder edited]
>
>(Perhaps a line could be added to network-etiquette documentation
>disparaging such practices?)
>
>Will

I disagree.  Where I have seen ^L used most frequently is in net.jokes and
net.puzzle.  In net.puzzle, they work wonders for separating the question
from the answer (much easier than trying to rot-13 only PART of a file).
In net.jokes, it either separates the joke from the punch line :

"So the lady responds :
^L
<whatever>"

or it gives the people a chance not to read the joke if they would be 
offended by it.  I think this is a good idea for several reasons, among
them : it's easy to put in a ^L, and not everyone knows how/is able to
unrotate statements.

Well, that's my $.02 -- 			Pat Juola
						Hopkins Maths