AF6AY ) writes:

Interesting that Miccolis keeps up his little game of adding
question marks to quotes of my postings.
No, someone is using an odd character set, or maybe an odd character
to show quoting, and it's getting garbled as it gets passed on.
I just checked, and I think there are three different different
things being displayed. In your message, it came as " =A0 " but
at least one other had more than just question marks representing
that.

I don't know what caused it, or who is the originating point, but
someone's using an odd or proprietary character set. It looks
fine to them, but others not using the same software (or at
the least have things set for the same character set) can only
display the character(s) as they interpret it. ANd different
newsreaders will interpret differently. Hence two or three
interpretations.

Michael VE2BVW

On Apr 20, 5:48�pm, (Michael Black) wrote:
AF6AY ) writes:
* *Interesting that Miccolis keeps up his little game of adding
* *question marks to quotes of my postings. *

No, someone is using an odd character set, or maybe an odd character
to show quoting, and it's getting garbled as it gets passed on.
I just checked, and I think there are three different different
things being displayed. *In your message, it came as " =A0 " but
at least one other had more than just question marks representing
that.

I don't know what caused it, or who is the originating point, but
someone's using an odd or proprietary character set. *It looks
fine to them, but others not using the same software (or at
the least have things set for the same character set) can only
display the character(s) as they interpret it. *ANd different
newsreaders will interpret differently. Hence two or three
interpretations.

Thanks for the explanation, Michael. Unfortunately, I don't
buy it for Miccolis. I go straight to Google for newsgroup
reading-writing, using only ASCII that is in MS Notepad.
There's a reason for not using a reader program but it has
nothing to do with newsgroups or their access.

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

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

On Apr 21, 1:58�pm, John Smith I wrote:
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.

Ahem, "artifacts?" Why they start showing up about a month
ago? Why do they only appear in Miccolis' quotes of my text?

Jay-suss...it must be time to trot out the old venerable LIST
program and do an ASCII dump of Google's text files! :-)

Yeah, I can still use that old thing from pre-Windows days.

73, Len AF6AY

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