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Re: [LUG] news.bbc.co.uk got recursive

 

Tom Potts wrote:
> On Wednesday 26 November 2008 09:27, Rob Beard wrote:
>   
>> Tom Potts wrote:
>>     
>>> they must spot this soon
>>> http:\\news.bbc.co.uk
>>> Tom te tom te tom
>>>       
>> Spot what?  The two slashes the wrong way around?
>>     
> Sorry my typo
> The BBC news web site was repeatedly calling intself so it was zooming off the 
> bottom right of the screen 
> NEWS BANNER NEWS BANNER NEWS BANNER
> Menu|NEWS BANNER NEWS BANNER NEWS BANNER
> Menu|Menu|NEWS BANNER NEWS BANNER NEWS BANNER
> Menu|Menu|Menu|NEWS BANNER...
> Menu|Menu|Menu|Menu|NEWS BANNER...
>
> sorry - it amused me at the time , and ate up a lot of bandwidth...
> Tom te tom te tom
>   
That would have amused me too, but I knew not of it. This is why I tend 
not to click on any-ol' link in the LUG messages... frequently the 
message title and content is not informative, so I have no idea what the 
link is about anyway.

Grant.

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