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(...) Good! That's where your replies belongs in a threaded discussion. (...) Not if you trim irrelevant portions of the reply correctly. (...) Top-posting is a fine thing for non-threaded discussions, especially where the recipient list changes (...) (22 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) That's what I used to think too -- but I'm not so sure anymore... (...) the double slash and (2) the http: prefix. (...) I've never seen anyone write anything like that before. But in any case, it's got two leading slashes instead of one. (...) (22 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) Please note that the above chart is not an ASCII chart. ASCII character codes range from 0 to 127 and nothing else. What the chart shows is the ISO-8859-1 (Latin1) character set. But it's not even correct at that, because 128 through 159 are (...) (22 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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Yikes! I just posted a reply and all my text was moved to the bottom of the message! Oy! Sure it makes it easy to read when the only message you read, in a thread, is the last one. But if you read the replies as the come in then you're forced to (...) (22 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) AFAIK, it's a Windows thing. In DOS, you didn't have to type the leading 0. --Todd (22 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Richie, what happens when you press Alt+0233 (type the 0233 on the numeric keypad)? --Todd (22 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Yes, but they're supposed to show on the right, not on the left. (...) If you click the "more..." link, it shows a reference card and it shows that the cent symbol is 162 (in the ISO-8859-1 character set). (...) Those aren't on your keyboard? (...) (22 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) I think you'll find too many anomalies if FTX supports // and ** directly. You have to also make sure you don't FTX format text that is not intended to be FTX formatted. Some examples to consider follow. For slashes: Valid web addresses: (URL) (...) (22 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, lugnet.admin.nntp)
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(...) You might want to try typing ALT + 162 to get the ¢ sign. Though as I've mentioned in another posting... for some reason, I need to type ALT + 0162 to get the right value. I'm still wondering if this is me doing something wrong, or if this is (...) (22 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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(...) Yes! 'é' please... it'll save me having to type cafe in Word® (which gets automatically converted to café) and copying the 'é' back to LUGNET. (Although the observant reader will note that 'Misérable' is in my flashy new 'sig', so I could just (...) (22 years ago, 30-May-03, to lugnet.publish, FTX)
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