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Re: A Change
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lugnet.off-topic.geek
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Thu, 8 May 2003 19:26:48 GMT
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Wow - that was the hardest post to read in a text terminal. SO MANY
MS-specific characters, it's like half the post was '?' signs!
for instance:
> Flashback:
> ????????
> In times-past, there were certain individuals who caused flame-wars, stole
> identities, and trolled news groups.
> (They?ve long since vanished?but we?re still in ?lock-down? mode!)
wow.
Dan
(posted via email auth. big deal, imo)
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Message has 1 Reply: | | Re: A Change
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| (...) Hi, I'm using the ISO-8859-1 (Latin 1) superset; and I bet that every newsreader written or updated in the last five years can handle that too. But usually only Windows machines can handle the additional characters in Codepage 1252. I dont do (...) (22 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.general)
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| .A Change ¯¯¯¯¯¯¯¯ (Not so much a` BIG change, but a `SMALL improvement!) !An open letter to the Lugnet community and its creators: I'm proposing that a change take place in our lovely Lugnet community. Not a radical revolution, but simply just a (...) (22 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.admin.suggestions, lugnet.admin.nntp, lugnet.people, lugnet.general, lugnet.admin.curators, lugnet.off-topic.debate, lugnet.announce)
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