XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, misc.phone.mobile.iphone, alt.internet.wireless   
   From: marianjones@helpfulpeople.com   
      
   Andy Burns wrote:   
   >> Here is how to opt out of the following databases   
   >   
   > Going chinese?  You've swapped into charset="big5" and the weird italic   
   > font that usually uses.   
      
      
   Hi Andy,   
      
   Maybe you can explain what happens with fonts as I've never understood how   
   they show up for people like you who are on the receiving end of my posts.   
      
   I write the content in gVim and I send it off with telnet.   
   Everything in the header related to the newsreader is essentially random.   
      
   Specifically, whatever the header "says" about fonts, is random.   
   It's not "completely" random as the header lines are "scraped".   
      
   That is, long ago I created a dictionary of headers which themselves were   
   scraped from existing posts randomly selected across the Usenet spectrum.   
      
   Whenever I want to change the headers for privacy reasons, I just flip a   
   switch and a different set of (essentially random) headers is inserted.   
      
   Given telnet is doing the sending, I have no idea how the "fonts" show up.   
   Can you explain how the system of fonts works?   
      
   Does the random header described above affect how YOU see my fonts?   
      
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