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From: chuqui@nsc.UUCP (Cheshire Chuqui)
Newsgroups: net.news
Subject: Re: FYI: underlining/highlighting in news articles
Message-ID: <1963@nsc.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 4-Dec-84 14:50:20 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  4 14:50:20 1984
Date-Received: Wed, 5-Dec-84 01:06:25 EST
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>	NO NO, this is not what he is doing he is using the sequence
>
>	underbar backspace character 
>
The reason I said what I said is because not everyone will limit themselves
to the underbar backspace character approach. It's happened on a couple of
occasions in the past, and invariably someone decides to get cute and pull
out their VT100 reference manual-- in go the graphics characters, the
double width, the double height, you name it, someone will see how NEAT it
makes the article look on their terminal and send it out. Unfortunately,
for all of those nice people on HP terminals a VT100 double width command
is, at best, meaningless and can do very strange things to their terminal.

Besides, not everyone uses more as their pager, so even the action of the
underbar backspace character sequence is really undefined. It is PROBABLY
harmless, but not guaranteed. 

The net is such a large collection of incompatible hardware that we need to
keep things as simple and compatible as possible or we're going to ding
someone out there. Anytime you get fancy, someone is going to have some
piece of hardware or software that breaks on it. 

I STILL don't recommend playing these games-- someone is going to get
burned by it.

chuq

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