David J Taylor wrote: > Richard B. Gilbert wrote: > [] >> There IS a mailing list for those who prefer mail to news or for those >> who don't have access to news. Comcast has announced that it will no >> longer offer access to net news effective 28 October 2008. > > There are free text-only news providers out there, and low-cost > subscription ones. Just because one ISP drops news servers it shouldn't > be a problem for anyone. > > BTW: I consider this a Usenet newsgroup, with an add-on mailing list, but > that's probably just because it's how I started. Is there any reason why > NNTP per-se should mangle non-ASCII characters? I always write ASCII "u" > rather than the Greek "mu", but that's mainly laziness!
Thank you. I REALLY didn't want to have to learn to read Greek! And who knows how the computer would render Greek characters if you did send them!! _______________________________________________ questions mailing list [email protected] https://lists.ntp.org/mailman/listinfo/questions
