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Re: weird return after post
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Date: 
Sat, 17 Oct 1998 00:02:33 GMT
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"Larry Pieniazek" <lpien@ctp.com> writes:

I take it you accidentally typed 'toomanyLEGOS?' into the Newsgroups box?
(Or did it on purpose to see what would happen?  :-)

I know I didn't do it on purpose and am not sure how I could have done it
accidentally. Maybe. But I REALLY doubt it. This is fairly weird. See, I don't
think you can have more LEGO(tm) than you need, so I would never even SAY the
phrase in question.

Well, the funny thing is, the phrase appears almost the same in the article
you were replying to.  Except it's got some punctuation and LEGOS was
lowercase...no way the server could have munged the article in that manner,
so we must be overlooking something really obvious.

Well, here's the root of the problem...just found it.

The article you were replying to says 'toomanyLEGOS?' in the Followup-To
field.


<pontificate>
Lesson 2 at Frank's knee, lo these many years ago, in IBM: "if you can't
PREVENT the user from making an error, make it easy for the user to recover
from it"
</pontificate>

Totally agree.  Cutting in verification of ng lines gets a priority boost.

--Todd



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(...) Yes. I think it's something Louise is doing. See: (URL) has the followup set to "TrainatWalmart" or something similar. In a reply to her when it happened again, I put a PS suggestion. See if you want to comment too. Long term, the novice user (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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(...) I know I didn't do it on purpose and am not sure how I could have done it accidentally. Maybe. But I REALLY doubt it. This is fairly weird. See, I don't think you can have more LEGO(tm) than you need, so I would never even SAY the phrase in (...) (26 years ago, 16-Oct-98, to lugnet.admin.general)

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