On Wed, 4 Sep 2002, Rob Hamerling wrote:

>Peter L. Peres wrote:
> >>
> >>So, I think, List members should be advised not to
> >>use non-usual symbols in their postings.
> >
> >
> > And also not in their names, as it could upset Microsoft
>products and /or
> > list policy.
>
>I thought over the years I had heard all reasons why to avoid M$,
>but this is a new one for me. Thanks, maybe I'll change my name!

Well, it was a joke. Since the op proposes that people should not use
non-7bit ascii characters in their names to prevent some programs from
using undesirable encodings ;-).

Btw, you set your encoding to 8859-1 and you caused a quoted-printable
problem yourself ;-) ;-)

Peter

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