[thelist] As an infrequent poster

[Brian Tully]

DOH!

After reading several notes referring to "Brian T.", it finally hit me...
"are they talking about ME!?" Not that I should apologize (seeing that I
didn't do anything intentionally wrong), but I will... As per Jeff's e-mail,
it appears that my message contained an extended ascii chracter - an
em-dash. Why in the world OE would interpret that as a command to self
destruct is beyond me. You're probably asking yourself "well why the hell
did he use a #%*@ em-dash?" - well when one does a lot of print work and
uses a Mac one uses the extended ascii characters subconsciously -
especially when they are a quick and intuitive  2-key combination (unlike
the PC where one has to play a Bach fugue on their keyboard)  ;)
I guess we learn from this NOT to use extended ascii characters on the list
- sorry I had to be the one leading this lesson. In the future I'll make
sure to keep all things grammarian at a minimum.

Your em-dashing friend,
B r i a n  T u l l y
Webmaster/Designer/Programmer
The Gary Stock Company
btully at gstockco.com


> From: "Jeff" <jeff at members.evolt.org>
> Organization: evolt.org
> Reply-To: thelist at lists.evolt.org
> Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2000 23:12:44 -0700
> To: <thelist at lists.evolt.org>
> Subject: Re: [thelist] As an infrequent poster
> 
> gene & all others that are curious,
> 
> :~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> : From: Gene Arcamonte <garcamo1 at tampabay.rr.com>
> :
> : but avid lurker, I would like to thank Brian T. for submitting
> : something that has jammed up my MSIE Outlook Express
> : with some noise that will not allow me to even access my
> : old "Evolt" folder. I can't even delete the G-D thing, because
> : every time I click on the folder, MSIE Outlook says I have
> : committed an "illegal action" and shuts down.
> :~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> 
> i've taken a look at the message and determined what the problem is.  it
> appears that the combination of an extended ascii character (139) combined
> with the word select has been interpreted (even as plain text) by oe as the
> opening of a select tag and attempts to render it.  however, when it
> encounters the period (.) and proceeding text it proceeds to crash.
> 
> what's really odd is that the ascii character 139 isn't a less-than (<)
> symbol, but something that resembles it very closely, only slightly shorter.
> 
> hope this clears things up,
> 
> .jeff
> evolt admin
> 
> name://jeff.howden
> game://web.development
> http://www.evolt.org/
> mailto:jeff at members.evolt.org
> 
> 
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