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From: Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups: comp.sys.mac.apps,comp.sys.mac.system
Subject: Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal
Date: 5 Jun 2014 14:13:01 GMT
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On 2014-06-05, Jamie Kahn Genet <jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:
> Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> wrote:
>
>> In message <1lmqa29.k4rshchnvytzN%jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> 
>>   Jamie Kahn Genet <jamiekg@wizardling.geek.nz> wrote:
>> > <billy@MIX.COM> wrote:
>> 
>> >> In comp.sys.mac.system Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>> >> 
>> >> > Do you also prefer the way Thunderbord treats Unicode text, because
>> >> > it sure seems to have fucked up the text in your reply.
>> >> 
>> >> Unicode handling is the biggest problem in newsreaders today.
>> >> 
>> >> Next is insufficient (static) buffer space, along with handling
>> >> excessively long subjects.  And references.
>> >> 
>> >> Billy Y..
>> 
>> > Unicode support is mostly irrelevant for the vast majority of Usenet
>> > users who spend their time in English language only groups where 99.99%
>> > of posts are easily expressed in only ASCII.
>> 
>> Complete and utter bullshit.
>
> I like how you managed to utter than in 100% ASCII characters. Thank you
> for helping make my point for me - it's always so much easier when they
> do that :-)
>
> TTFN,
>  Jamie Kahn Genet

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