Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Andy Burns Newsgroups: alt.comp.os.windows-10,comp.mobile.android,misc.phone.mobile.iphone,alt.internet.wireless Subject: Re: Discussion: How to set up your mobile devices & home router for privacy/security Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2025 15:30:03 +0000 Lines: 25 Message-ID: References: <10gko1b$u3l$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <10h3g9c$25vi$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> <10h5dlv$1g8a$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net SXxTV3FX0ARwjsJVhF2pIwh2HAfNfCgGGXlQndZjP40v2W/Zk7 Cancel-Lock: sha1:3n4ypW6IvBrbewj8MVLpGMqQkFM= sha256:0Rc7ABfBXOvrPQCBJCYGcWD95JlyC1Nf10bRuC8eFkM= User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird Content-Language: en-GB In-Reply-To: <10h5dlv$1g8a$1@nnrp.usenet.blueworldhosting.com> Xref: csiph.com alt.comp.os.windows-10:190238 comp.mobile.android:151828 misc.phone.mobile.iphone:198906 alt.internet.wireless:18640 Andy Burns wrote: > Marian wrote: > >> Maybe you can explain what happens with fonts as I've never understood >> how >> they show up for people like you who are on the receiving end of my >> posts. The receiver controls the font, but modified based on certain charsets, e.g. Chinese tend to use "big5" and Thunderbird will use either a YaHei or SimSun font for that, which always looks like a low quality scratchy font on my machines ... someone else described it as "stretched vertically Times Roman" >> I write the content in gVim and I send it off with telnet. >> Everything in the header related to the newsreader is essentially random. >> >> Specifically, whatever the header "says" about fonts, is random. >> It's not "completely" random as the header lines are "scraped". Maybe any scraped sample headers that you randomly include into postings should exclude those with charset big5, or koi8 (similar for russian)