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Re: OT: articles on commercial television debut, 1939 [message #340620] Wed, 29 March 2017 16:08
Ahem A Rivet's Shot is currently offline  Ahem A Rivet's Shot
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On Wed, 29 Mar 2017 14:00:45 -0500
Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> wrote:

> Yes, greyed out now. I understand why a space can change the meaning,
> though in this particular context I'm not sure why anyone cares. OTOH,
> I've done awful things by missing a space on the Linux command line.

Years ago someone wrote an RFC and ever since then people have been
baking it into code., particularly the code that strips signature blocks
from quotes.

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