Posted by NRen2k5 on 02/09/07 23:19

J.J. O'Shea wrote:
> 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.

Actually, they didn't. All their abuse system does is forwards them
complaint straight to me. Presumably they also keep records, but to date
they have never even warned me about anything.

I figure I'd have to be pretty nasty, like a transsexual pedophile
troll, to actually get my ISP coming down on me.

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