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   Kenny McCormack to nospam@nospam.invalid   
   nospam must be in a world of hurt (Was:    
   23 Jul 20 09:19:40   
   
   XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.windows7.general   
   From: gazelle@shell.xmission.com   
      
   In article <220720202320049969%nospam@nospam.invalid>,   
   nospam   wrote:   
   ...   
   >> >> 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.   
      
   Quite so.  I was just about to post in exactly those same words.   
      
   >which is is accessed via a newsreader app running an os.   
      
   It must hurt to be this stupid.   
      
   >unicode is the current standard, which supports all characters. ascii   
   >does not.   
      
   And that has nothing to do with anything that is being discussed in this   
   thread.  In future, pay attention!  Get smarter!   
      
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   1) We've just had another mass shooting; now is not the time to be talking   
   about gun control.   
      
   2) We've just had a massive hurricane; now is not the time to be talking about   
   climate change.   
      
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