stupid anthrax q: would microwaving your snail mail help?

[Declan McCullagh]

Dare I say it? Another reason to use just 7-bit ASCII. 

I'm not particularly religious on this issue, but for text-based 
discussions like the ones we have here, anything else just doesn't
seem necessary, and can lead to strange results like what we just saw.

-Declan


On Fri, Oct 19, 2001 at 04:13:19PM -0700, Karsten M. Self wrote:
> Above mistranslates ISO-8859-1 encoded \260 (octal), the degree sign, as
> a zero.
> 
> Temperatures should read 220 F, 270 F, and 280 F, not thousands of
> degrees.