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/>

Reply via email to