From: Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz (Shmuel+gen@patriot.net)
Date: Sat Feb 01 2003 - 18:41:53 CST
In <20030131212958.23546.qmail@kairos.algonet.se>, on 01/31/2003
at 09:29 PM, sommar@algonet.se (Erland Sommarskog) said:
>I am about to attempt to unsubscribe from the Usenet-format mailing
>list.
I see no reason why the attempt would fail, but I hope that you will
reconsider.
>2) The attitude from some people, most recently displayed by the 822
> people, that the world is still defined by seven-bit terminals,
>and
> compatibility with them is more sacred by providing solutions
>that
> are usable by humans even without the latest software, and which
>does
> not produce even more baggage. Obviously, if 8-bit characters in
> newsgroup names ever comes out in an IETF-stamped standard it
>will
> be some useless scheme. The real world might use something else
>though.
I can't argue with that.
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Shmuel (Seymour J.) Metz, SysProg and JOAT
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Team PL/I
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