stupid anthrax q: would microwaving your snail mail help?

[Karsten M. Self]

on Sat, Oct 20, 2001 at 10:17:31AM -0700, Tim May (tcmay at got.net) wrote:
> On Saturday, October 20, 2001, at 09:13 AM, Declan McCullagh wrote:
>
> > 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.

> As for the "degrees" issue, confusion about the symbol was one of the
> reasons the scientific community abandoned use of the symbol at least
> 30 years ago. 212 F and 100 C are the accepted ways of reporting
> temperature...the degree symbol was redundant anyway and led to
> typesetting problems.

Thanks, wasn't aware of that.

Peace.

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