in over my head ascii

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nephish at xit.net wrote:
> i know that those characters exist, the docs say that the server does
> not want the special "ETX" and "STX" characters, but the 3 ascii
> characters "STX" and "ENX" i am not sure why.

What do you bet the server software was written by someone
who thought ASCII STX meant literally the characters "STX"?

I've seen stupider things.