On 6/5/02 10:24 PM, "Rich Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well Beth Rosengard wrote something or other on 6/5/02 10:00 PM > >> Huh? This happened on a newsgroup server where the funkiness was there for >> the whole world to see. I wasn't even one of the posters. I was just >> observing. > Ah, newsgroups servers are mostly quite archaic and haven't a clue. Even the MS News Server? Because that's what it was. > They can't for the most part get the clues which tell email clients which > platform and which client you're using. Thus the server saw a Mac's � and read > it as a pc's whatever it is and transmitted it to the entire group. > > The most common problems in newsgroups are curly quotes both single and > double and dieresis. > > No Mac was harmed in that experiment. :-) -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
