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From: billy@MIX.COM
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Subject: Re: Upcoming New Newsreader for the Mac: Signal
Date: Tue, 3 Jun 2014 16:01:04 +0000 (UTC)
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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..
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