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