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Subject: 
Colon character ":" getting changed to ">"
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Date: 
Mon, 19 Jul 1999 23:53:50 GMT
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I typed in a message:

   http://www.lugnet.com/general/?n=5653

which happened to contain a colon ":" that ended up getting wrapped to the
beginning of a line, and the colon got changed into a ">". (You can use "View
Raw Message" to see it the way I typed it.)

What happened, and how do I avoid it in the future?

- Robert Munafo



Message has 1 Reply:
  Re: Colon character ":" getting changed to ">"
 
(...) That's the web display thingy doing its best to fix miscreant the quote character ":" back into a ">", but it's failing miserably in the case you discovered, because your ":" wasn't actually quoting anything. The same thing would happen if you (...) (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)

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