Posted by J.J. O'Shea on 02/09/07 03:28

On Thu, 8 Feb 2007 21:15:44 -0500, Jamie Kahn Genet wrote
(in article <1ht9x0b.8el0k51tnbqkkN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz>):

> 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?
>

He's just pissed that his ISP made him play nice the last time he tried to
take on Michelle.

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