From: athel.cb@gmail.com   
      
   Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn  posted:   
      
   > J. J. Lodder wrote:   
   > > Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn  wrote:   
   > >> J. J. Lodder wrote:   
   > >>> Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn  wrote:   
   > >>>>>> In my opinion the equation [E = m*c^2] is wrong.   
   > >>>>>   
   > >>>>> Your opinions count for nothing.   
   > >>>>   
   > >>>> [Something is wrong with either Thomas Heger's newsreader   
   > >>>> (configuration) or yours.  Above, the superscript 2 for the square was   
   > >>>> posted as "?".  This is the 21st century; please use only up-to-date   
   > >>>> and properly configured newsreaders.]   
   > >>>   
   > >>> This is just part of TH's (and yours)   
   > >>> general incompetence in math and phys.   
   > >>   
   > >> LOL.  I have a B Sc in Computer Science, Mathematics, Astronomy, and soon   
   in   
   > >> Physics, too.   
   > >   
   > > From long ago no doubt.   
   > > FYI, real mathematicians and physicists understand basic TeX. .   
   > > (and TeX is fool-proof, not even you could waste it)   
   > > Your so-called degrees cannot be serious if you don't know about TeX.   
   >   
   > I encourage you to search for me on the Web to test your assumptions.   
      
   I just did, and I suspect that you may come to regret making that suggestion.   
   Underwhelming puts it too weakly.   
      
   >   
   > >>> Math formulas on usenet should be rendered in ASCII,   
   > >>> and nothing but ASCII, using some kind of quasi-TeX.   
   > >> LOL.  Welcome to the 21st century!   
   > >   
   > > FYI, Usenet is not from the 21st century.   
   >   
   > That does not mean that we have to remain in the stone age in order to use   
   > it.  In fact, it had been decided by the IETF long ago that that should not   
   > be so; therefore, by 2009, new standards for Network News had been   
   > developed, agreed upon, and already implemented by server and user agent   
   > developers to facilitate that.  You are simply out of touch, and if the   
   > cause of the incompatibility is your newsreader (it *is*), it is not simply   
   > out of date and obsolete, but *non-compliant*, i.e. *broken*.   
   >   
   > (It is well-known in today's Usenet that MacSOUP is broken as it was never   
   > updated after 2016, and was buggy even back then.)   
   >   
   > >>> Any attempt at using non-ASCII symbology is an error.   
   > >>   
   > >> No, it is not.  Network News has been supporting non-ASCII encodings since   
   > >> the late 1990s.  See also RFC 5536.   
   > >>   
   > >> Unicode is the standard character set with electronic devices nowadays.   
   > >   
   > > Usenet is not from nowadays.   
   >   
   > See above.   
   >   
   > >>> Newsclients have nothing to do with this,   
   > >>   
   > >> Wrong.  You and your newsreader are hopelessly out of date.   
   > >   
   > > Your use of Unicode for math on usenet   
   > > marks you as an incompetent amateur,   
   >   
   > No, your ignorance and now (that you have been told) disregard of current   
   > network standards marks *you* as one:   
   >   
   >  (released in 2009)   
   >   
   > And your ignoring "Followup-To: poster" indicates that you are trolling.   
   >   
   > Score adjusted.   
   >   
      
      
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