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Is there a bug thread ? n/t (Original Post)
CincyDem
Nov 2023
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bucolic_frolic
(50,323 posts)1. You mean like spotted grasshoppers? They are a plague. /nt
CincyDem
(7,106 posts)3. haha. No, I mean the "why do quotation marks in DU Mail titles truncate the title" kind.
But thank you Master Po for asking.


bucolic_frolic
(50,323 posts)4. lol Bug really were the first thing that came to mind .nt
CincyDem
(7,106 posts)5. The term did start with the real thing (moth, not grasshopper)
https://www.dbvis.com/thetable/why-are-they-called-bugs/#:~:text=The%20term%20%22computer%20bug%22%20originated,lodged%20in%20the%20machine%27s%20hardware.
The term "computer bug" originated from a real-life insect. The first recorded instance of a bug causing a technical malfunction occurred in 1947 when engineers working on the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator, an early computer at Harvard University, found a moth lodged in the machine's hardware. This moth was causing an electrical fault, disrupting the system's normal operations.
The term "computer bug" originated from a real-life insect. The first recorded instance of a bug causing a technical malfunction occurred in 1947 when engineers working on the Mark II Aiken Relay Calculator, an early computer at Harvard University, found a moth lodged in the machine's hardware. This moth was causing an electrical fault, disrupting the system's normal operations.
marybourg
(13,399 posts)2. You're in it. State your bug.
When sending a DU email.
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When I preview the message, the entire title appears as originally written in the preview BUT the title in the editing window below is truncated at the first quotation mark.
When I preview the message again, the title in the preview is now truncated.
Using Safari 17.0 on a OS 12.7 MacBook Pro.
EarlG
(22,881 posts)7. Thanks for the report
We should be able to get this fixed soon.