Re: WARNING: Control Codes
From RaD Man <rad...@sorryspamguys.org>
· alt.ascii-art.animation
· 1 Oct 1997 00:00 · View full thread
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Heh...You got "flashed" by a newsgroup subject. that's crazy. On 30 Sep 1997 19:51:06 GMT, ad6...@FreeNet.Carleton.CA (Darrell A. Larose) wrote: > >Dave Wallace (DS...@willows-end.demon.co.uk#nospam) writes: >> Hmm. Maybe the problem is with Southern InterNET service's software or >> system. I'm not worried about control codes and I am certainly not going >> to read any postings from this guy in future. >> >> All the best... > >Colin wrote the FAQ and the charter of this newsgroup. Your reply reeks >of ignorance of the problem that control codes can cause. NOT EVERYONE is >using Netscpae to read news. There are Macs, PC, VT-100 terminals and >UNIX systems. Just because it doesn't affect your system, doesn't mean >it won't affect others. On my system UNIX box running Freeport software >control codes (in fact last week in another NG) switched my screen to >unreadable extended ASCII characters. I didn't even open the article, >the poster thought it would be cute to put escape codes in his Subject >header line. > > > >Darrell Larose.. http://livewire.newforce.ca/darrell .. dar...@.newforce.ca > > "Living at risk is jumping off the cliff > and building your wings on the way down" (Ray Bradbury) > > RaD Man ACiD Productions http://www.acid.org
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: fd588,a3f07f3c8c7f32d1 X-Google-Attributes: gidfd588,public From: rad...@sorryspamguys.org (RaD Man) Subject: Re: WARNING: Control Codes Date: 1997/10/01 Message-ID: <343...@3com.news.internex.net>#1/1 X-Deja-AN: 277122597 References: <60jjtp$qv9$5...@mnementh.southern.co.nz> <wB1...@willows-end.demon.co.uk> <60rdf8$ao...@freenet-news.carleton.ca> <60rl7a$jg...@freenet-news.carleton.ca> Reply-To: rad...@nospam.acid.org Organization: ACiD Productions Newsgroups: alt.ascii-art.animation
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