moroney@jon.DEC (Mike Moroney) (10/22/85)
> I recently got mail from 'digi-g!deg', in which 'deg' informed me that part > of my '.signature' graphics was causing his modem to hang up when his > system tried to receive a news file containing an article which I had posted. > It seems that three consecutive '+' signs were interpreted by his modem as > a control command. A cute signature is fun, but when the graphics are > composed of non-alphanumeric characters they may cause problems to others > on the Net. That modem sounds like an Anchor, or a clone. If so, the problem can be solved in 2 ways - 1) Don't wait 1 second before and after sending the "+++" (that is, send your data faster) and 2) (preferred) change the command character from "+" to something not likely to be transmitted at all with the ATS2=xxx command. (pick your favorite control character) -Mike Moroney ..decwrl!rhea!jon!moroney