In article ,
Larry Jaques wrote:

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.

.
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.

Forgot the smiley he did.


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.

Well, I'm still semi hooked. Though I drop out when the thread degenerates into
namecalling. People today just aren't that good at namecalling. Used to be
that one could not call oneself a genteleman if one could not curse someone out
for at least a half hour without repetition or profanity.

Joe Gwinn