Dragaera

Spoiler protection

Tue Jun 11 21:57:54 PDT 2002

On Tue, Jun 11, 2002 at 11:38:14PM -0500, Nancy Thuleen <nthuleen at students.wisc.edu> wrote:
> At 23:45 -0500 11.6.2002, David Dyer-Bennet wrote:
>  > "Scott Ingram" <singram at videotron.ca> writes:
>  > > Okay, I think we're going to need a little more spoiler space than THAT.
>  > Ah.  That was a standard form-feed spoiler space; should be guaranteed
>  > to produce a complete blank page, on any non-broken mail reader. 
> Hmmm ... my newsreader interprets spoiler characters just fine,
> but my mail program (Eudora Mac) does not, apparently.  I just
> got one blank line, which did seem a bit skimpy for any spoiler
> "space".  Are spoiler characters really a standard for email as
> much as they are for Usenet?  If so, Eudora is "broken", I
> guess.  :(

Nearly every Windows-based newsreader and mailreader are broken
in this regard, last I checked.  Newsgroups use spoiler
characters more, so there is some demand for a newsreader that
supports them.  The actual character is defined in ASCII,
however, and thus applies equally to news and mail readers.

-- 
Matthew Hunter (matthew at infodancer.org)