AF6AY wrote:
  ...
    Miccolis has been dogging me for roughly a decade due to
    his whatever condition and the "question marks" came
    through only recently...and only on my quotes, not quotes
    from others in the same message.  For evidence, I just look
    at his posts [if it quacks like a duck, looks like a duck, it
    probably IS a duck].  :-)
 
    73, Len  AF6AY
 
Len:
I too was suspicious of the question marks and a few other strange ascii 
characters, it does seems some news clients and google groups do cause 
some strange behaviors.
Regards,
JS