On Tue, 5 Mar 2019 06:50:55 +0000, The Natural Philosopher
wrote:

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.


Or just stick to a really old ASCII client that doesn't aim to confuse
anybody?

Usenet and email both trying to be too clever

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AnthonyL