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From: David Kaye on 24 Feb 2010 20:21
"David H. Lipman" <DLipman~nospam~@Verizon.Net> wrote:

>Usenet is Internationand the following string IS ASCII !
>=?windows-1256?B?1ebRIOHh38jH0SDd3tggKzIx/Q==?=

Usenet may be international in scope, but the character set is 7-bit ASCII.
Anything else has to be encoded so that it is posted to the news servers as
7-bit ASCII.

Now, the code you posted above is indeed ASCII in the sense that it's 7-bit,
but it's gibberish: =?windows-1256?B?1ebRIOHh38jH0SDd3tggKzIx/Q==?= doesn't
resolve to anything on any news reader using RFC 1036 standards.


From: David Kaye on 24 Feb 2010 20:31
MEB <MEB-not-here(a)hotmail.com> wrote:

> AND I will remind both of you the ACTUAL interface to this forum is via
>Microsoft's site, we just happen to be using the NNTP services to access it.

I think you mean AN ACTUAL interface because I'm not reading or responding via
any website at all. I'm using Usenet via the news.eternal-september.org
Usenet server. I am using News Xpress, one of many hundreds of Usenet news
readers available.

I haven't had a browser loaded in half an hour or more. In fact I don't
think I've ever been to Microsoft's forum. I'm using a news reader. Lots of
people use news readers.

From: VanguardLH on 24 Feb 2010 20:50
David Kaye wrote:

> Just a reminder that names, titles, and other material on Usenet is required
> to be 7-bit ASCII. This means no 8-bit foreign characters, etc. Many
> newsreaders display garbage when trying to render 8-bit characters. (8-bit is
> not ASCII by the way.)
>
> Here's the defining standard:
>
> "Full names may contain any printing ASCII characters from space through
> tilde, except that they may not contain "(" (left parenthesis), ")" (right
> parenthesis), "<" (left angle bracket), or ">" (right angle bracket).
> Additional restrictions may be placed on full names by the mail standard, in
> particular, the characters "," (comma), ":" (colon), "@" (at), "!" (bang), "/"
> (slash), "=" (equal), and ";" (semicolon) are inadvisable in full names.
>
> Read more: http://www.faqs.org/rfcs/rfc1036.html#ixzz0gU6PBCSj

And what did any of this have to do with security or the issue of viruses,
the topic of THIS newsgroup? Nothing. Or is there really some security
issue regarding the encoding schemes possible when using ASCII characters?
From: MEB on 24 Feb 2010 20:57
On 02/24/2010 08:31 PM, David Kaye wrote:
> MEB <MEB-not-here(a)hotmail.com> wrote:
>
>> AND I will remind both of you the ACTUAL interface to this forum is via
>> Microsoft's site, we just happen to be using the NNTP services to access it.
>
> I think you mean AN ACTUAL interface because I'm not reading or responding via
> any website at all. I'm using Usenet via the news.eternal-september.org
> Usenet server. I am using News Xpress, one of many hundreds of Usenet news
> readers available.

So what, that means only YOUR access method. The forum is hosted on
Microsoft's servers, its interface is THE INTERFACE. We use a secondary
method of access.

>
> I haven't had a browser loaded in half an hour or more. In fact I don't
> think I've ever been to Microsoft's forum. I'm using a news reader. Lots of
> people use news readers.
>

Again, who cares, nobody but you and those who believe Usenet is
something it is not.

What next, the normal garbage about free speech and all the rest of the
nonsense that gets spouted in Usenet...

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From: Geoff on 24 Feb 2010 21:00
.... and what on earth prompted this crusade?
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