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Re: Colon character ":" getting changed to ">"
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Newsgroups:
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lugnet.admin.general
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Date:
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Tue, 20 Jul 1999 17:54:09 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.general, Todd Lehman writes:
> 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.
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.
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 | | Re: Colon character ":" getting changed to ">"
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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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