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.

Well, JS, the mere MENTION of such "artifacts" has far-reaching
repurcussions. :-)

Note: No "artifacts" were used, incorporated, introduced, intended,
or harmed in the Google-only upload of this reply.

73, Len AF6AY