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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 11 Jan 1998.
Re: hey
Dave Bird---St Hippo of Augustine (Dev...@xemu.demon.co.uk) wrote:
>In a<199...@ladder01.news.aol.com>, Spunk1111 writes:
>>>On Fri, 02 Jan 1998 02:48:47 GMT, boo...@globalnet.co.uk wrote:
>>>>On Wed, 31 Dec 1997 13:46:58 -0500,  "Andrew Tuitt" wrote: 
>>>>>
>>>>>what in the world is this supposed to be????
>>
>>I'll tell you what it is.... it's a way to make AOL user's
>>systems jam and crash...  unclosed html codes are
>>used on AOL to make people get punted offline...
>>Did anyone else, besides me get cut off and have
>>to reboot?


>It has no effect on me -- this newsreader ignores html.

And this newsreader ( TIN )displays HTML as garbage...which I skip over 
and ignore ! 

It's impossible to stop people posting this coded stuff, warnings or 
no warnings, so it has to be ignored in some way...difficult and 
infuriating though if it makes your machine/system throw a wobbly and 
crash eh ?  :-(

Bye,

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From: cfb...@southern.co.nz (Colin Douthwaite)
Subject: Re: hey
Date: 1998/01/11
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