| Subject: Why do I nkeep seeing users like =?Utf-8?B?aG9uZXlzYnVubnk=?= here? |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.games |
| Date: 7/14/2008 6:06:18 PM |
| From: Dauphin de Viennois [Email Address Protection] |
Only in the Vista groups do I keep seeing usernames like "=?Utf-8?B? aG9uZXlzYnVubnk=?=" all over the place. I kept thinking it was the same person who was a troll or something but now I realize it must be my Xnews newsreader and the default lauguage coding it is using. These people must be using some non standard unicode or something. |
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| Subject: Re: Why do I nkeep seeing users like =?Utf-8?B?aG9uZXlzYnVubnk=?= here? |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.vista.games |
| Date: 7/15/2008 7:58:48 AM |
| From: "Andy [YaYa]" [Email Address Protection] |
Dauphin de Viennois <spamtrap@on.here> wrote in news:eKSek.99389$gc5.10025@pd7urf2no: > Only in the Vista groups do I keep seeing usernames like "=?Utf-8?B? > aG9uZXlzYnVubnk=?=" all over the place. I kept thinking it was the > same person who was a troll or something but now I realize it must be > my Xnews newsreader and the default lauguage coding it is using. These > people must be using some non standard unicode or something. They are 2-bit characters, usually Japanese characters, and since this is a Usenet newsgroup, the servers filter them out. You're not really posting to a web forum, that forum is leeching feeds off another server. Kind of like a mini-intranet. Think FidoNet, but more "Internet" based. God I'm old... -- -A. |
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