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09-06-2005 | 06:00 PM

DeltaT

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Why do I see so many control characters?? Like:<blockquote><

Like:

<blockquote>quote:<hr />

Do they work on other people's 'puters or is it some setup or option thing??

It makes it hard to read some threads...

Thanks,

Jim

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09-06-2005 | 06:09 PM

Brandon Boomhauer

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Those are usually found in very old posts, before the board was converted to vb3

Thats all HTML fyi..

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09-06-2005 | 06:28 PM

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Originally Posted by Brandon

Those are usually found in very old posts, before the board was converted to vb3

Thats all HTML fyi..

Yep. UBB (the previous forum software) did not convert smoothly. The switch to VB happened in Fall 2003, so only posts older than about two years ago will have that stuff