Subj : "Hi ASCII" in the nodelist
To   : Bj”rn Felten
From : mark lewis
Date : Sat Jan 12 2013 19:22:29

 ml> or perhaps you misunderstood me? bj”rn's patched makenl (2.51??) 
 ml> already allowed this years ago when he let it out for everyone to 
 ml> use... automatically and no config verbs or similar...

 BF>    Thanks mark, you are absolutely right.

you are welcome, bj”rn ;)

 BF> If every *C had used my patched version already from the Y2K 
 BF> change-over, we wouldn't have to debate this issue now.

yeah, and 12 years later, no less :/

 BF>    And what encoding to use? Who cares? Just let the fucking 128+ 
 BF> characters pass, and let the users decide how to handle them! If 
 BF> you cannot see them as they were intended -- big deal. They would 
 BF> at least be more meaningful, than the present question marks, to 
 BF> many enough users.

exactly what i was trying to say :)

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