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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Cheshire Chuqui)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: FYI: underlining/highlighting in news articles
Message-ID: <1951@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Sun, 2-Dec-84 22:54:11 EST
Article-I.D.: nsc.1951
Posted: Sun Dec  2 22:54:11 1984
Date-Received: Tue, 4-Dec-84 07:43:16 EST
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Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Cheshire Chuqui)
Organization: Plaid Heaven
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Summary: 

In article <132@osu-eddie.UUCP> karl@osu-eddie.UUCP writes:
>Greetings. I have received  quite  a  bit  of  mail  in the recent past from
>people who are wondering how I get reverse-video or underlining into my  net
>postings. 

Please note a couple of things:

1) These actions are NOT recommended because they only work if the terminal
on the other end happens to be compatible with yous. There are many
terminals out there guaranteed not to be, and control sequences can do
unexpected things and upset the person reading the article. We've had cases
where people have accidently locked, reset, or otherwise made a terminal
unusable or unreadable.

2) Many versions of news eat any potentially dangerous control characters.
I believe that 2.10.2 (and perhaps 2.10.1) will only allow \n, \r, and \h,
making everything else go away. 

The end result is-- most people either won't see it, or will see garbage.
Some people will probably get dinged, and that isn't a way to make friends
and influence (positively) people. This topic comes up every six months or
so, and every six months or so we remind people that doing these things is
potentially dangerous and shouldn't be done.

chuq
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