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I would think just allowing the "return" or newline to go into the database unprocessed and unmodified and to spit it back out, unprocessed and unmodified, would be a not good scenario.

What is to prevent me or anyone from just holding down the return key for an hour and posting 7 million lines of whitespace?

Tom
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Re^19: Making Perl Monks a better place for newbies (and others)
by jdporter (Paladin) on Feb 05, 2020 at 21:39 UTC
    What is to prevent me or anyone from just holding down the return key for an hour

    Nothing; but you're only wasting your own time. And there's nothing special about newlines. What's to prevent someone from pasting <HR/> a million times?

    and posting 7 million lines of whitespace?

    LOL. Node size is limited to 64 kb.

    And if anyone posted a node consisting of 64kb of newlines, that node would be reaped within the hour.

    So what was your point again? lol

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