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From: karl@osu-eddie.UUCP (Karl Kleinpaste)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: FYI: underlining/highlighting in news articles
Message-ID: <3@osu-eddie.UUCP>
Date: Mon, 3-Dec-84 16:00:24 EST
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Posted: Mon Dec  3 16:00:24 1984
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>1) These actions are NOT recommended because they only work if the terminal
>on the other end happens to be compatible with yours. There are many
>terminals out there guaranteed not to be, and control sequences can do
>unexpected things and upset the person reading the article...
>
>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.
>
>...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.
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First, I offer a general retraction of the suggestion.  Fine.

Second, the only "dangerous control  character" I mentioned was backspace; I
hardly  suspect  that there are many terminals for which this  causes  major
heartbreak. I wasn't suggesting that raw escape sequences be inserted; gads,
no.

But, third,   why  in  heaven's  name was ***any*** news
software  ***ever*** created which could deal with this sort of thing if  it
was known to exploit the braindamage of people's terminals??? 

Exasperation begins to set in...
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Karl Kleinpaste @ Bell Labs, Columbus   614/860-5107  {cbosgd,ihnp4}!cbrma!kk
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