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Default OT - The Slippery Nature of Secrets -- The shah wasn't supposed to fall; Iraq's WMD were supposed to be a 'slam dunk.'

On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 11:49:26 -0500, the infamous Joseph Gwinn
scrawled the following:

In article ,
Larry Jaques wrote:


I figured out what it is. Your damned MAC symbols aren't as robust as
M$ Windoze symbols. Do they make Boost for MACs?


Symbols? Aren't these all in a standard ISO character set? This does not vary
by platform type.


Damned literalists, I swear.


Which symbol sets work and which do not work for you? The newsreader can be
told which set to use.


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I had it set to US-ASCII. Trying Western Europe (codepage 1252)


What does "Boost" do? (The name is too common a word to google for.)


Boost is one of the senior vitaminized milkshakes. Chocolate Geritol.


I'm also running into a non-technical problem - the WSJ seems to now be putting
stuff I used to post pointers to behind a paywall. I recall an article quoting
Robert Murdock (who owns the WSJ) saying that they (the newspapers) could not go
on giving content away. So we may be seeing implementation of a new policy.
I'll be digging.


Thanks. I used to get the free feed, too, but I found that I was
wasting too much time following each thread and had to stop for my
sanity. Every once in awhile, they'd slip in a link to a page with a
paragraph on it and a link for the paid section if you wanted to view
the whole article.


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