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 Message 210 
 mark lewis to Maurice Kinal 
 splitting the atom 
 05 Jun 15 21:35:14 
 
05 Jun 15 21:43, you wrote to me:

 MK> -={ Friday, 05 June 2015, 17:43:02 -0400 }=-

 MK> Hey mark!

 MK> Okay that looks better.  I have you down as en_US.utf8 and EST5EDT. 
Should
 MK> be no issue given your hidden CHRS thingy which is totally bogus btw.  ;-)

it is/was only a fluke... this reader/editor doesn't do utf8 wortha flying
eff... i'm going allthe way back to CP437 if i can specifically to be able to
properly view the 8bit graphics drawing glyphs...

 ml>> original type 2

 MK> It was in it's original form prior to WeBeBashing.  Sometime between
 MK> 1999-ish to 2005-ish.  It started out as a 'fix' to some issues I had at
 MK> the time.  I only picked it up again later on and started calling it
 MK> WeBeBashing.

ok... plain type 2 does have its limits... that's why everything pretty much
moved on to 2+ and/or 2.2...

 ml>> type 2+ and type 2.2...

 MK> Probably 2+ if that is the one without the domain in the header.  Also I
 MK> thought there was an incarnation without a broken apart localtime thingy
 MK> which I never got working with anyone but was attractive since I never was
 MK> a fan of any ftn datetime stamps to be quite honest.  Currently the pkt
 MK> header that gets tacked on prior to uploading contains a 16-bit month
 MK> ranging between 0-11 which is not only a waste of bits but also silly
since
 MK> numerically June is actually 6 and never 5 ... except amongst certain
 MK> progammers who insist the first on EVERYTHING is actually 0 which in this
 MK> case it isn't ... except it is.  :::sigh:::

welcome to the real world ;) :lol:

 ml>> we're not too far of in our likes and dislikes, contrary to
 ml>> popular belief...

 MK> Speaking for myself I was never aware there was any conflict between us,

maybe not but there have been times that were quite undesirable...

 MK> although I can understand why some might think there was.  Definetly
 MK> no conflict as far as I am concerned and I never was under the
 MK> impression there was any at your end.  As far as I know I get the
 MK> impression we like to take pokes at each other when the opportunity to
 MK> do so arises, such as your bogus CHRS thingy.  ;-)

no... i don't care for all that poking and oneupmanship mess... i never have
liked it... but whatever...

)\/(ark

... The hand that gives, gathers. -English proverb
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