# ¨d¨T¨n¨T¨g

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-t-n-t-g/32165>\
**Category:** About This Message Board\
**Created:** [September 6, 2000, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-t-n-t-g/32165 "2000-09-06T01:54:46Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 1:54am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-t-n-t-g/32165/1 "2000-09-06T01:54:46Z")

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just a test.

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**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-t-n-t-g/32165/2 "2000-09-06T01:56:32Z")

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well, that didn’t work…

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**Author:** ![Chronos](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chronos/32/134_2.png) [@Chronos](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chronos)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 5:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-t-n-t-g/32165/3 "2000-09-06T05:05:20Z")

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What were you trying to do?

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**Author:** ![Season\_Strange](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@Season\_Strange](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Season_Strange)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 5:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-t-n-t-g/32165/4 "2000-09-06T05:53:33Z")

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Looks like another quote test. Is there a bug? Why so many quote tests?

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**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 3:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-t-n-t-g/32165/5 "2000-09-06T15:07:44Z")

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I was trying to use ASCII “pipe” characters in a thread title. It was just practice for my [untitled thread](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?threadid=37440) in MPSIMS.

UncleBeer, if you’re reading this, I’m sorry about that. I had no idea the indexer chokes on characters like that. ☹

The “quote bug” is if you want to use quotes in a thread title, you can’t use the preview feature. Apparently, there are ASCII codes for the " character that bypass this bug. After seeing someone discover this I thought I’d try to make a thread using a space as the title. It took some time to find a usable blank ASCII character that the board software would accept.

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**Author:** ![Montfort](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d6d6ee/32.png) [@Montfort](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Montfort)\
**Post date:** [September 6, 2000, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-t-n-t-g/32165/6 "2000-09-06T19:28:02Z")

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Earlier today there were two Test posts ( **Test** and **Test 2** ) on this thread, before this message, and after my last one. They were by Jerry the admin god.

Now they are gone.

Hmmm… 😕

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**Author:** ![Uart](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/e480ec/32.png) [@Uart](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Uart)\
**Post date:** [September 7, 2000, 1:34am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/d-t-n-t-g/32165/7 "2000-09-07T01:34:02Z")

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🆒  
😕