2. Topica acting strange again?
The following line contains only a string of "-" (minus) chars:
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Is it there this time? (Web interface)
In my previous posts on "C operators":
the first post contains only one out of two lines of all
minus chars, while the second post contains none, while
both posts had two lines of all minus chars.
Whats with that?
This list is not suitable for programming conversations
at all.
--Al
3. Re: Topica acting strange again?
Al Getz writes:
> The following line contains only a string of "-" (minus) chars:
A tool is being used to strip advertising
out of messages (before Topica inserts more ads).
The tool looks for long lines of dashes, equals signs
and other patterns. The test is not perfect,
but I'd rather lose an innocent line here and there,
than be overwhelmed with ads. The fact that you are
the first person in more than a month to notice anything
shows the tool is working well. 
Many people have their e-mail client set up
to automatically quote the entire message
they are replying to... "Original Message Follows"...
including all the ads. They are too lazy to do selective
quoting or strip out any ads, so the tool does it for them.
Many people have Yahoo and Hotmail ads at the
end of their messages. Without this ad-stripper, you'd
see far more ads than we have now.
Regards,
Rob Craig
Rapid Deployment Software
http://www.RapidEuphoria.com
