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Re: Spoilers (was: Re: F1, Ferrari and the 8458)
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lugnet.off-topic.fun
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Sun, 8 Oct 2000 22:37:01 GMT
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In lugnet.off-topic.fun, Jeff Christner writes:
> [...]
> not to spoil the outcome for those who haven't seen the event yet. If
> I would have come across this message in my newsreader, I wouldn't
> have read it guessing that it might have something to do with today's
> F1 race, but to those who use the web interface, a spoiler given in
> the first few lines is unavoidable.
Last time I checked, if you include an ASCII #12 (Page Feed) character in your
post, then the "Brief" mode displays will chop everything past this when
displaying. ASCII #12 (Ctrl-L on some keyboards) has a long-established Usenet
tradition for putting spoilers on a second page.
--Todd
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