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Original Usenet message from alt.ascii-art, 21 Aug 1996.
Re: Apology to people who don't like my post.

Re: Apology to people who don't like my post.

mis...@csc.canterbury.ac.nz wrote:

>Yeah, and just how many character-sets on how many platforms include these 
>second 128 characters!??!?!?  Sweet F.A.!!!  

> Not once in computer-science were we told about the implications 
> of translating the "line drawing" characters in electronic 
> communication.

That figures !

I have been quite amazed that Computer Science buffs express 
ignorance about the effects of posting the extended character set on 
the Net without uuencoding articles containing them.

It appears that the subject is not covered by the University 
courses in Computer Science.

Bye,

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From: cfb...@southern.co.nz (Colin Douthwaite)
Subject: Re: Apology to people who don't like my post.
Date: 1996/08/21
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