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   Jonathan N. Little to nospam   
   Re: Microsoft might change the cadence o   
   22 Jul 20 20:39:01   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general   
   From: lws4art@gmail.com   
      
   nospam wrote:   
   > In article , Jonathan N. Little   
   >  wrote:   
   >   
   >>>>>> Neither do bullet points.   
   >>>>>   
   >>>>> But I disagree with that. What's wrong with bullet points?   
   >>>>>   
   >>>> They can be quite effectively done with a lower-case letter O   
   >>>>   
   >>>> o like this.   
   >>>>   
   >>>> I've also seen people using a full stop (US: period; actually, probably   
   >>>> best just to say a dot)   
   >>>>   
   >>>> . like this,   
   >>>>   
   >>>> but I think in most fonts the o is better.   
   >>>   
   >>> even better is using an actual bullet point character.   
   >>>   
   >>   
   >> Well if you are being true to Usenet it should be only US ASCII   
   >> characters and there are no bullet point characters in ASCII < 127.   
   >   
   > unicode replaced ascii long ago in all modern operating systems.   
   >   
      
   We are not talking about OSes, we are talking about Usenet.   
      
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