Beartooth <bearto...@swva.net> wrote: > >On Sat, 03 Jan 2009 20:13:48 +0100, Per Hedeland wrote: > >> Beartooth <bearto...@swva.net> wrote: >>> >>>!> Warning: The posting profile's server doesn't carry newsgroup !> " >>>grc.techtalk". >> >> I guess that's absolutely verbatim, including the "weird" space between >> the opening quote and 'grc'? > > Dunno, due to formatting -- when it left here, each "!" began a >line; so it was not apparent whether there was an extra space. You have >sharp eyes.
So it was in the message I received, and in the response I sent, which had the lines (clipped and separated here in an attempt to avoid renewed mangling): >!> Warning: The posting profile's server [...] >!> " grc.techtalk". Who is the culprit behind the gratuitous re-formatting above (also present in Duncan's reply) - gmane? Or Pan?:-) > Oho! Shades of the GPO! Back when I began cataloging books into >the Library of Congress, and it still printed literally thousands of >copies of every card, the formatting for the printers at the GPO was >coded into the spacing. If you got one too many or too few, every copy of >the card turned into gibberish from there down... > > I thank you, SIR, and offer a sweeping bow to your exemplary >perspicacity. Thanks again! Gee, I had to lookup both GPO (Government Printing Office?) and perspicacity...:-) --Per _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org http://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
