On Thu, 08 Jan 2015, Nicholas Boel wrote to mark lewis:

 ml> i thought you'd get a kick out of that :mrgreen:
 ml> back in the day, when real terminals were used, you wouldn't even 
 ml> see the strings as above... the first part would put put up and 
 ml> the CTRL-W would erase it to place the next part up... it was a 
 ml> fin thing we used to do way back to play with folks' heads... 
 ml> subliminal stuff, if you will :lol:

 NB> REAL terminals.. as in DOS terminals?

no... real terminals like the Wyse 50 and similar... they were connected to the
host machine with serial links ;) 

 NB> Pfft. C'mon now. Progress has been made in abundance since those 
 NB> days. :)

true but our readers and terminals used to access our bbses don't recognise the
CTRL-W and CTRL-H's like they used to... it used to be that they were seen as
actual control commands instead of a combination of the characters '^' and 'W'
or 'H' ;) 

)\/(ark