On 04/03/2019 16:32, Andy Burns wrote:
The Natural Philosopher wrote:

Well if he will run legacy software that hasnt been updated in a
decade on a legacy OS....that hasn't been updated in 15..

ISO Latin 1 includes a pound sign, the client is doing the encoding to
keep the message 7-bit clean, but it's mixing expectations that clients
are old enough to dislike 8-bit code pages yet they accept QP encoding ...

Yup.And then when he gets clients who can understand all that replying,
it gets into UTF8, and he then mangles that still further..

Basically that OS/2 news reader is shot.

Sometimes you have to move with the times if you want to be understood.


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Future generations will wonder in bemused amazement that the early
twenty-first centurys developed world went into hysterical panic over a
globally average temperature increase of a few tenths of a degree, and,
on the basis of gross exaggerations of highly uncertain computer
projections combined into implausible chains of inference, proceeded to
contemplate a rollback of the industrial age.

Richard Lindzen