Re: [IRCA] East Coast - recent reports

[Chris Kadlec <beaglebass@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Here. I will show you an example.

Youâre seeing the question marks because of mail programs that use special markings instead of plain text ones. For instance, instead of the plain dash, it makes it into a special extended one â probably like what I just typed. Or instead of the plain ..., it turns it into a single character like â or the straight apostrophe ( ' ) becomes a special curved one ( â ). Or when you see many question marks, it is likely because someone hit the TAB key or something similar, and itâs usually right after a log, so it makes it look like they got something and theyâre not sure if they really did, but itâs instead just their mail program being a little bitch.

Iâm using Windows Mail, which probably just made that a curved apostrophe, which changes everything to those special characters. There is no option anywhere to tell it NOT to do this, though MS Word does have an option to prevent that. When I remember, I oftentimes use Notepad and type all my mails in there, which doesnât change anything whatsoever, and then I paste it into my mail so that the formatting is plain text only and no question marks will appear.

Itâs absolutely absurd when you donât have control over things you type, and thatâs technology these days. They want to be helpful, but they only hinder your progress and take control from the user in the process. 

-Chris Kadlec



Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 04:16:01 +0000 (UTC)
From: Mark Connelly <markwa1ion@xxxxxxx>
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Subject: Re: East Coast - recent reports
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Wondering why I see a bunch of question marks inserted into reports I send when I read them in email back from this list - especially since they were not there when sent.
I occasionally note this with others' stuff too.
It gives the impression of not being sure about given logs when, in fact, this is not the case.
Mark Connelly, WA1IONSouth Yarmouth, MA
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