Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/17/84 chuqui version 1.7 9/23/84; site nsc.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!cbosgd!ihnp4!nsc!chuqui 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 References: <> Reply-To: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Cheshire Chuqui) Organization: Plaid Heaven Lines: 31 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 -- From the center of a Plaid pentagram: Chuq Von Rospach {cbosgd,decwrl,fortune,hplabs,ihnp4,seismo}!nsc!chuqui nsc!chuqui@decwrl.ARPA ~But you know, monsieur, that as long as she wears the claw of the dragon upon her breast you can do nothing-- her soul belongs to me!~