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I typed in a message: (URL) 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 (...) (25 years ago, 19-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) 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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(...) I had a similar problem with emoticons: ":P" (colon, cap P - sticking your tongue out) displayed as ">P", thereby loosing the "so there" tongue-in-cheek attitude of the post. Instead, it was taken deadly serious and debated for about a week. (25 years ago, 20-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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I don't understand your answer at all. You say it's trying to "fix miscreant the quote character ':' back into a '>'". I don't know what "fix miscreant" means, but I do know that ":" and ">" aren't quote characters so I'm having trouble figuring out (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general)
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(...) By "quote character" here I mean news-quoting rather than English text quoting. The two paragraphs above this one that I'm writing are "quoted" paragraphs from your message. The word "quoted" is in English quotes. Sorry about the ambiguity. (...) (25 years ago, 26-Jul-99, to lugnet.admin.general, lugnet.publish)
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