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From: alanp@netcom.ca (Alan Popow)
Subject: Re: Apology to people who don't like my post.
Date: 1996/08/25
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On 21 Aug 1996 14:06:32 GMT, cfbd@southern.co.nz (Colin Douthwaite) wrote:

>misc3608@csc.canterbury.ac.nz wrote:
>
>>Yeah, and just how many character-sets on how many platforms include these 
>>second 128 characters!??!?!?  Sweet F.A.!!!  
>
>> Not once in computer-science were we told about the implications 
>> of translating the "line drawing" characters in electronic 
>> communication.
>
>That figures !
>
>I have been quite amazed that Computer Science buffs express 
>ignorance about the effects of posting the extended character set on 
>the Net without uuencoding articles containing them.
>
>It appears that the subject is not covered by the University 
>courses in Computer Science.

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