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Posted by Jamie Kahn Genet on 02/09/07 02:15
NRen2k5 <nomore@email.com> wrote:
> J.J. O'Shea wrote:
> > On Wed, 7 Feb 2007 14:24:58 -0500, Michelle Steiner wrote
> > (in article <michelle-3D0DB2.12245807022007@news.east.cox.net>):
> >
> >> In article <Topyh.46212$3D6.1944022@weber.videotron.net>,
> >> NRen2k5 <nomore@email.com> wrote:
> >>
> >>> Please don't try to use curly quotes on Usenet. They don't always work.
> >>> Stick with pure ASCII.
> >> I copied and pasted the article without attempting to edit it. I did
> >> not notice that they had used curly quotes.
> >>
> >>
> >
> > You gotta consider who's complaining.
> >
> > And the simple fact that if only he had a real newsreader, he'd not be
> > complaining, as real newsreaders showed either straight quotes or knew
> > enough to show curly quotes and not some fool escape code.
> >
> > Ignore the twit.
>
> You're a moron.
>
> "Some fool escape code"??? LMAO! What are you going on about?
>
> It's perfectly fucking simple, but I'll repeat it for the mentally
> challenged anyway: Michelle's newsreader is fucked up; it's not using a
> proper character encoding; nonstandard characters such as curly quotes
> in her posts show up as other characters instead - in my case they're
> appearing as superscript numerals.
>
> Maccies get the fuck out. We don't have any patience for the mentally
> retarded here in alt.music.mp3.
Wow. That's a pretty huge chip you have there on your shoulder. Did a
PowerBook fall on your foot when you were little?
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