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Posted by Tim McNamara on 02/09/07 03:38
In article <wrNyh.14423$tt1.63173@wagner.videotron.net>,
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.
Since the post looked fine in other newsreaders, the problem appears to
be yours and not Michelle's.
> Maccies get the fuck out. We don't have any patience for the mentally
> retarded here in alt.music.mp3.
Then I guess can't tolerate yourself.
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