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    Re: posting weirdness —Dan Boger
   (...) yah, that's what it looks like to me. Since it would match any newline, and start adding up the whitespace until it found the beginning of a new paragraph. it'll backtrack to the next blank line, try again, and fail once more.... if you have (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
   
        Re: posting weirdness —Todd Lehman
   (...) It's actually infinitely worse than that. The NFA it produced actually had exponential performance, so it would try to do it 2^80 (2 raised to the 80th power) times, which would take about 302,200,000,000,000,000 seconds or about ten thousand (...) (24 years ago, 17-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.general)
 

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