[BC] Internet attacks

[Cowboy]

On Wednesday 08 July 2009 09:48 pm, Sid Schweiger wrote:
>  
>  "I used an online base 64 decoder and come up with the following.
>  ===========================
>   >>what kind of idiots run these Government sites?<<
>  
>  In all likelihood, political appointees."
>  
>  I'm guessing that when I use the double-arrows to set off a quotation being replied
>  to, that's what mucks it up.  It's standard quotation marks from now on! 

 The standard quote character for as long as I've known anything about internet,
 is the single arrow. A double arrow indicates a quote of a quote.
 The system is designed to respond properly to that notation.
 The right side, left pointing arrows mean nothing at all in standard text messages.
 Microsoft, of course, does not subscribe to the world standard, and "invented"
 their own circa 1997 when Microsoft "invented" internet, several years after
 internet was already in common use.
 Of course, the Microsoft "standard" is also ( as expected ) very error prone.

 Quotation marks ( " ) suggest, just as in a newspaper, a verbatim quote taken
 out of context, ( or as I have done, to emphasize a very, very literal interpretation
 of a specific word, usually suggesting sarcasm ) and is why they are decidedly
 NOT an internet standard.
 They also have a special meaning in source code, dependent on the language.

 Your double arrow one-off unique marking does muck up some things, but not
 the base64 encoding. That was an artifact of a server migration a few weeks ago.

-- 
Cowboy