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From: henry@mit-trillian.MIT.EDU (Henry C. Mensch)
Newsgroups: net.sci,net.politics,net.philosophy,net.news
Subject: Re: Please desist from embedding Ctrl-L's
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Date: Sun, 25-May-86 02:09:32 EDT
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In article <2903@jhunix.UUCP> ins_apmj@jhunix.ARPA (Patrick M Juola) writes:
>I disagree. . . . . .  . In net.puzzle, they work wonders for separating
>the question from the answer  . . . . .
>In net.jokes, it either separates the joke from the punch line :
>
	You assume that everyone is using the same news software and
the same terminals as you are.  I used to have a terminal that would
have epileptic seizures when it received a ^L.  Some news software
doesn't deal with ^L's very well (old versions of vnews, for example).
The bottom line is that ^L doesn't work the same everywhere, so please
don't use it.  The rest of us will be grateful.  

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