# Testing...please ignore **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [May 1, 2000, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-please-ignore/18259 "2000-05-01T15:02:29Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 12\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![Maelro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@Maelro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maelro)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2000, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-please-ignore/18259/1 "2000-05-01T15:02:29Z")
Just seeing what stuff looks like… Oh, finding the “submit” button helped. ---
**Author:** ![Maelro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9dc877/32.png) [@Maelro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Maelro)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2000, 3:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-please-ignore/18259/2 "2000-05-01T15:03:54Z")
I guess we can’t edit. Oh well…who wants to be like SNOPES anyway? ---
**Author:** ![curious\_george](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/b487fb/32.png) [@curious\_george](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/curious_george)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2000, 3:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-please-ignore/18259/3 "2000-05-01T15:56:37Z")
Copied from Dan Rosenbaum’s Winletter: * * * Phil Katz If you ever downloaded a file, you met Phil Katz. Katz wrote the Shareware program PKZip [http://www.winzip.com](http://www.winzip.com), far and away the most popular File compression program. The program, written as a hobby in 1986, was part of computer technology infrastructure, common as browsers would become. Katz was found dead on April 14 at the age of 37. He apparently lived a troubled life; the Milwaukee medical examiner put the cause of death as complications from chronic alcoholism. He was found in a hotel room holding a bottle of alcohol, and five empty liquor bottles were also found in the room. Phil was a graduate of UWM Computer Science Engineering Program and owner of PKWare Inc. [http://www.pkware.com](http://www.pkware.com) No commentary here. But his passing, which was under-reported, should be noted. ## [http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/pkzip000422.html](http://www.abcnews.go.com/sections/tech/DailyNews/pkzip000422.html) [http://www.jsonline.com/news/obits/apr00/katzphillipw041900.asp](http://www.jsonline.com/news/obits/apr00/katzphillipw041900.asp) [http://www.pkware.com/](http://www.pkware.com/) ---
**Author:** ![AuntiePam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/f19dbf/32.png) [@AuntiePam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AuntiePam)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2000, 1:15am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-please-ignore/18259/4 "2000-05-02T01:15:55Z")
[http://homepages.go.com/~cmcinternationalrecords/angryfire.gif](http://homepages.go.com/~cmcinternationalrecords/angryfire.gif) ---
**Author:** ![Andy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/aeb1de/32.png) [@Andy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Andy)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2000, 1:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-please-ignore/18259/5 "2000-05-02T01:17:40Z")
[http://geocities.com/r337m0nk3y/net/smileysex5.gif](http://geocities.com/r337m0nk3y/net/smileysex5.gif) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/original/2X/e/e489c3b7d8fce19c4b355dd4fc3f88cc39c34b87.png) [@system](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2000, 8:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-please-ignore/18259/6 "2000-05-02T20:39:00Z")
Testing to see if vB requires a quotation mark in the hyperlink command in between the {url = } and the {http}. The following is copied from the vB Code page. Does it say “vBulletin Home Page” as a hyperlink? [vBulletin Home Page](http://www.vbulletin.com) Here is the same thing with no quotation mark in between the {url = } and the {http}. Does it also say “vBulletin Home Page” as a hyperlink? [vBulletin Home Page](http://www.vbulletin.com) If it doesn’t need the quotation mark, then it’s just the same as the old UBB hyperlink setup. Is it a typo on the vB Code page? ---
**Author:** ![mouthbreather](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/a698b9/32.png) [@mouthbreather](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mouthbreather)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2000, 8:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-please-ignore/18259/7 "2000-05-02T20:59:12Z")
test ---
**Author:** ![Beadalin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/3be4f8/32.png) [@Beadalin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beadalin)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2000, 10:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-please-ignore/18259/8 "2000-05-02T22:53:15Z")
_Do italics work the same way_ **Howsabout bolding** Just checking it out. ---
**Author:** ![Cessandra](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/59ef9b/32.png) [@Cessandra](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cessandra)\ **Post date:** [May 2, 2000, 11:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-please-ignore/18259/9 "2000-05-02T23:57:43Z")
and i thought having small, bolded words at the beginning of a post was just a new fad. ---
**Author:** ![sorrel554](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/91b2a8/32.png) [@sorrel554](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sorrel554)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 12:42am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-please-ignore/18259/10 "2000-05-03T00:42:09Z")
Just figuring out the new system. ---
**Author:** ![Flyhalf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ea5d25/32.png) [@Flyhalf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Flyhalf)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 9:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-please-ignore/18259/11 "2000-05-03T09:18:36Z")
testing ---
**Author:** ![evilbeth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/evilbeth/32/2268_2.png) [@evilbeth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/evilbeth)\ **Post date:** [May 3, 2000, 10:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/testing-please-ignore/18259/12 "2000-05-03T10:00:10Z")
just a test…