Re: Yet another test


"badgolferman" <REMOVETHISbadgolferman@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message news:xn0g5cz4878orr700b@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Jeff, 1/19/2009,8:08:30 PM, wrote:

On Jan 19, 8:05 pm, "Jeff Strickland" <cr...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> "Hachiroku ハチロク" <Tru...@xxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> news:pan.2009.01.20.01.00.27.238936@xxxxxxxxxx
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>
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> > On Mon, 19 Jan 2009 09:58:25 -0800, Jeff Strickland wrote:
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> >> "Jeff" <jeff....@xxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
> > > news:39266ab0-4ce3-4217-88e2-eac7f74535e5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > > ps.com...
> >>> On Jan 19, 12:29 am, Hachiroku ハチロク <Tru...@xxxxxxx>
> wrote: >>>> New Linux installation. Testing posting and encoding.
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> >>> Shouldn't you be using one of the usenet groups for testing?
>
> >> Shouldn't you be using an encoding scheme that is not Japanese?
>
> > That's what the test was!!!
>
> > Actually, i use UTF-8 Unicode. It allows foreign characters like
> > ハチロク to be processed.
>
> > What's interesting is Jeff is using Mozilla Mail and News through
> > Google Groups, and that's what changed the encoding to Japanese.
> > Interesting, since there are only 4 Japanese characters in the
> > entire post, and those were in the header (Until Jeff replied...)
>
> Your encoding got stripped from the first post that I saw, but was
> restored in Jeff's post and HIS Reply was also encoded in Japanese.
>
> I don't really care where the Japanese characters come from, I'd
> like to not see them. My reader strips the Rich Text and Replies in
> Plain Text, but I still get the offending presentation.

I use Google groups, because my ISP doesn't care alt groups anymore. I
use my ISP for other groups that they do carry. Unless I am out of the
area, where I use google groups for everything.

Jeff

Motzarella, AIOE, Albasani, Mixmin, X-Privat are very good free
newsservers.



I use motzarella. The main thing I don't like is that it balks at the number of cross posts. I never cross post, but I do reply to cross posts, and Motzarella throws a hissy fit if there are more than 4 news group accounts listed.





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