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  Re: Why did Model Team die?
 
(...) I think it might actually be Latin. Short for "id est", meaning "that is". I believe it's used when you are trying to explain what something means. i.e. you are saying the same thing you just said, but in other, more clear words. Here's an (...) (21 years ago, 11-May-03, to lugnet.modelteam, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: A Change
 
(...) huh, funny how that works. I'm running mutt that was compiled on April 20th, 2003. So yes, I'm sure it _can_ handle all the current standards. (...) you mean only windows machines ignore the standards, and show characters that don't really (...) (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: A Change
 
(...) How should anything know that your message is using this "codepage 1252"? The message headers specify that you're using the standard iso-8859-1 charset -- but you're not. You've got a bunch of characters using mappings that are reserved for (...) (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Perl Help
 
(...) Oh, but it has a great searchable help system! Try "perldoc perldoc". (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: A Change
 
(...) 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 don’t do (...) (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek, lugnet.general)
 
  Re: A Change
 
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: (...) wow. Dan (posted via email auth. big deal, imo) (21 years ago, 8-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Off-Topic - Virus Warning
 
This is true, I got two this afternoon when I downloaded my Bricklink email - strange though I never transmit my bricklink email other than the use at Bricklink orders. The viruses are as follows: W32.Klez.H@mm and W32.Gibe.B@mm, the last one came (...) (21 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Perl Help
 
(...) Dan (21 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Perl Help
 
(...) And for lots of random tips tricks and forums, there's (URL) (21 years ago, 6-May-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)
 
  Re: Perl Help
 
(...) in addition to activestate's site, you can look at perldoc.com for all the man pages (which should have been installed with perl anyway), and also at search.cpan.org for modules. Dan (21 years ago, 5-May-03, to lugnet.cad.dev, lugnet.off-topic.geek)


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