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[Randall]

> Sometimes I see messages littered with question marks.
> 
> Please, folks, set your mailers to plain text.

Well, there's plain text and then there's 7-bit ASCII.  In at least some
cases, the question marks are due to people trying to use the extended plain
text character set.  The list server strips off the extra bit (since some
systems don't handle it well), and sometimes garbage results.

Like this : 7C2?o

Randall