XPost: alt.usenet.kooks, alt.slack   
   From: snipeco.2@gmail.com   
      
   Doc Hammerslack  wrote:   
      
   > William Stickers  wrote:   
   > > Doc Hammerslack wrote:   
   > > > snipeco.2@gmail.com (Sn!pe) wrote:   
   > > >   
   > > > > Doc Hammerslack  wrote:   
   > > > >   
   > > > > > I'll admit that I got tired of their MIME-escaped quote separators,   
   > > > > > so I have this newsreader rendering those strings.   
   > > > >   
   > > > > Is there an emoji for an aubergine (eggplant)   
   > > > > that has shriveled, turned black and fallen off?   
   > > >   
   > > > ?   
   > >   
   > > That's a question mark. This is usenet, not fucking facebook.   
   > >   
   >   
   > Are you the Usenet cops, come to arrest me for posting IAW   
   > the encoding specified in the header, pursuant to the relevant   
   > RFC's?  What's the charge?   
   >   
   > You can have my emojis when you pry them from   
   > my cold, dead fingers.   
   >   
      
   Oh dear.  I must take issue with you yet again, Doc.  What about   
   Postel's Law on the Principle of Backwards Compatability?   
      
   As any fool knows, the One True Usenet is the Seven Bit Clean   
   Text/Plain ASCII Usenet with NO pretty little cartoonies for kiddies.   
      
   --   
   ^Ï^.    Sn!pe, itinerant wading bird.   
      
   My pet rock Gordon is ungendered.   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)