Re: I know you're tired of hearing this, but ... re FAQs

On 05 Jul 2005 WazoO entered spamcop.help and left 
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> Must have been timing, as I can't find the error you're pointing to.

Jump To Section Links ->
...
Credits & Thanks
[points to]
http://forum.spamcop.net/forums/index.php?showtopic=2238#Credit

which is OK, but the target doesn't exist because the "target" is 
"#Credit", which is what I was referring to above.

> 
>   I'd suspect
> that I could ignore the "don't edit this file directly" warning,
> edit the file directly, then restart the application to then pull
> in the changes ... but again, I don't have that luxury.

Probably not a good idea, unless you know exactly how the board generates 
it's code.

> 
> The security bits in place attempt to ensure that malicious
> code can't be 'uploaded' .. basically meaning that there's
> a process that HTML gets converted a bit for the application
> to process, then a BBCode to HTML conversion gets
> kicked in to convert that output back to paint the page.
> Unfortunately, this actual process never got documented,
> so there's a lot of "this works" .. "this doesn't work" ... "this
> code needs to be typed in like this .." ... I'm still feeling
> around in the dark here.
> 

That's the why most bbcode is. In phpBB it converts "+" to a space, the 
only way to actually post a message with a "+" in it is to post in html and 
use + otherwise phpBB is pretty nice.
I never write that down so I always forget how to post a "+", so when I 
need to it usually takes me a couple tries to remember.


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