Changing this to [OT] which I believe you get...

On Friday 02 September 2005 03:55 am, Russell McMahon scribbled:
> Even when eg Neil saw the message untruncated AND repeated it
> untruncated it apparently truncated again at exactly the same place.

You mean at the exact character count, or the exact character pattern?


> I make the original message ABOUT 259 characters at the truncation
> point (I'm not going to go back and count it again) so it was quite
> probably 256 characters give or maybe 255. The fascinating thing is
> that Neil and others copied the same paragraph, reportedly unedited,
> which resulted in various ">"s being added. And yet my system has it
> truncated at the same place.

> This suggests that there may HAVE been a non printing character there,
> added after character 256 odd, which caused truncation. A quick look
> shows it's not there now though.
>
> Neil - can you look at the source of the original message or any that
> had the whole sentence in them and see if there appears to be any
> extra characters there. Looking at HTML level MAY work but it may need
> a hex editor.
>
> Neil:    Did you type in
>
>         "... are specified by package type."
> above, or copy and paste it.
>
I re-typed it verbatim -- not cut-and-paste.  Just checked the original 
message (also viewed as source text), and can't see any special characters.  
I'm using kmail on Linux btw.

Want me to re-type it a few times with various quantities of characters 
preceeding this phrase?


Cheers,
-Neil.



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