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From: thad@public.BTR.COM (Thaddeus P. Floryan)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.amiga.advocacy
Subject: Re: Announcement--new "Unicode" standard
Message-ID: <1923@public.BTR.COM>
Date: 26 Feb 91 09:12:09 GMT
References: <1991Feb24.164137.11897@cunixf.cc.columbia.edu> <1991Feb24.175313.10206@Neon.Stanford.EDU> <1906@public.BTR.COM> <1991Feb26.004323.17914@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG>
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In article <1991Feb26.004323.17914@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG> xanthian@zorch.SF-Bay.ORG (Kent Paul Dolan) writes:
> thad@public.BTR.COM (Thaddeus P. Floryan) writes:
>Stupid jingoism helps no one.
>[...]
>
>> Sheesh. :-)
>
>Indeed.

Thanks for leaving at least one of my ":-)" in your reply!  :-)

There have been some most-interesting replies in this "thread" already,
but I haven't seen any mention of "trigraphs".  Am I going blind?

Seriously, this topic does NOT belong in *.advocacy and had it been in a
more-appropriate forum my original reply (retort) wouldn't have been so
sarcastic.  Sadly, Julie (who started this thread and is still at PORTAL)
isn't able to see ANY of this because PORTAL holds incoming Amiga stuff in
suspense for 7 days, then "loads" it, then immediately deletes it due to the
7-day expiration; that stupid policy change resulted from the comp.sys.amiga.*
re-org with PORTAL's contention the changed hierarchy is "new" with no tenure
and thus lower than whale turds; why'd you think I switched to BTR as a primary
with some other systems as "backup"?  :-)

I don't see any distribution problems for Mac, Apple II, or IBM newsgroups
at PORTAL (which, by the way, is situated in Computertino CA, Apple's stomping
grounds).

THAT is an "advocacy" issue: PORTAL's handling of the Amiga newsgroups, a
new "cause celebre" (HEY, the irony: I *need* the Unicode to properly accent
that phrase! :-)

Thad Floryan [ thad@btr.com (OR) {decwrl, mips, fernwood}!btr!thad ]