I love BC.

I enjoy many of the stories here and the commentary.

There is little here that is bad other than the occasional mini-flame war. Fortunately we for the most part don't descend to that here . And Erin and her elves are vigilant the few times we don't mind our manners.

But there is a menace, an insidious evil lurking here.

OLD DOS control characters in titles!

In DOS, AKA Disc Operating System or is was it Disk Operating System? certain characters had special functions assigned to them and thus they could NOT be used in file names.

These included but are not limited to the *search characters*

*

and

?

Then there were other control characters such as

:

|

and so on.

Got hint as to the EVIL I speak of?

So for example you like a story enough to read it later or remember the old days of dial-up and prefer to read offline? Then you get a story title with a colon in it or a question mark on the end.

STOP DOING THAT!

I am getting very irritated

-- HUFF HUFF --

and , well, I'll hold my breath until I turn blue to force you to cut it out!

-- POUT --

So there!

John in Wauwatosa

P.S. -- GRIN --