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Re: Help: Leading Spaces?
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lugnet.admin.nntp
Date: 
Sun, 31 Dec 2000 20:39:39 GMT
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In lugnet.admin.nntp, Todd Lehman writes:

Do you mean that when your list items were indented, like this, for example:
[example snipped because they are causing the problem too]

Okay, based on some little tests I just ran in .test, and the
results of trying to reply to your message, I can better
describe this now.  I can't show you because it keeps blowing
me off-line  :]

*Any* occurrence of more than 3 consecutive spaces in my
post (in either fresh or quoted content) causes the problem.
It need not be at the beginning of a line.

Thus replying to your message with quoting, the first example
you showed hung my connection.

Over in .test, I tried little messages with 3 spaces at the
beginning of a line.  Both times I hit "Preview" and lost
carrier in less than a minute.

KDJ



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  Re: Help: Leading Spaces?
 
(...) That's truly bizarre. Even if it were a server-side issue, no server-side fault or even a client application fault should cause your Internet connection to drop carrier. You've got something very strange going on in your system. What happens (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
  Re: Help: Leading Spaces?
 
(...) This sounds like a modem issue. Modems have an escape character (+ by default) which if typed three times in a row will get you into command mode (where you can issue commands, like ATDT or ATZ, etc.) Most modems will only recognize the escape (...) (24 years ago, 24-Jan-01, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Do you mean that when your list items were indented, like this, for example: 4) Wait some amount of time, at least a few minutes. that your browser locked up when you clicked the "Post" button, but then when you took out the leading spaces and (...) (24 years ago, 31-Dec-00, to lugnet.admin.nntp)

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