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From: cfbd@southern.co.nz (Colin Douthwaite)
Subject: Re: Apology to people who don't like my post.
Date: 1996/08/31
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Alan Popow (alanp@netcom.ca) wrote:
>On 29 Aug 96 23:30:34 +1200, misc3608@csc.canterbury.ac.nz wrote:
>
>>> Just so you know, Colin, you're dissing the wrong guy. He was pointing out
>>> sarcastically that the extended characters are NOT part of the standard
>>> ASCII character set and should not be posted in messages.
>>
>>> Alan
>>
>>Wow, Thanks Alan.  
>>Glad to know -someone- understood what I was getting at. 
>
>Well, let's face it, sometimes we all can lose track of who said what and
>what he/she meant by whatever it was we think he/she may have said he/she
>said in a previous post - even when we have it written down right in our
>faces.
>
>And I have to add that I was not trying to diss Colin, just point out where
>he erred. 

Actually I think there were a number of misunderstandings in this
thread.

I was genuinely concerned that computer science students do not
seem to receive information about the use of the extended character
set and the problems of posting those characters on the Net.

Computer science graduates seem to be unaware of the problems that
their use on the Net can create.

My response was not a flame of the individual student.

Does that clear the confusion ?  Or add to it ?  8-)

Bye,