Re: OT: rude behaviour

It was thus said that the Great cat K. once stated:
> 
> I wouldn't expect a DEC vt510 from 1993 to render my Gopher hole as I
> intended in 2025 any more than I would expect Mosaic to properly render
> YouTube.

  Do you expect any modern Gopher client to properly render your page?  The
gopher browser I use (which I wrote) strips out ANSI escape codes as I
consider them a security threat [1]. I still see the art, but it's not as
colorful.  It was also easier to strip them out than to attempt to support
ANSI escape codes [2].

  -spc

[1]	There are defined escape sequences to issue application and
	operating system level commands.  There are also escape sequences
	(in the "privately defined" areas) that can load the cut buffers
	that could be problematic. Not all terminals or terminal emulators
	support such sequences, but some.  And at the very least, malicious
	pages could set the terminal into a useless state (say, setting the
	foreground and background colors the same).

[2]	Technically, ECMA-48 (a European standard) as ANSI withdrew their
	version in favor of ECMA-48.