[ntp:questions] list posts in UTF-8

David J Taylor david-taylor at blueyonder.neither-this-part.nor-this-bit.co.uk
Mon Oct 27 07:22:40 UTC 2008


Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
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> There IS a mailing list for those who prefer mail to news or for those
> who don't have access to news.  Comcast has announced that it will no
> longer offer access to net news effective 28 October 2008.

There are free text-only news providers out there, and low-cost 
subscription ones.  Just because one ISP drops news servers it shouldn't 
be a problem for anyone.

BTW: I consider this a Usenet newsgroup, with an add-on mailing list, but 
that's probably just because it's how I started.  Is there any reason why 
NNTP per-se should mangle non-ASCII characters?  I always write ASCII "u" 
rather than the Greek "mu", but that's mainly laziness!

Cheers,
David 





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