Why do I nkeep seeing users like honeysbunny here?

  • Thread starter Thread starter Dauphin de Viennois
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Dauphin de Viennois

Only in the Vista groups do I keep seeing usernames like "=?Utf-8?B?
aG9uZXlzYnVubnk=?=" all over the place. I kept thinking it was the same
person who was a troll or something but now I realize it must be my Xnews
newsreader and the default lauguage coding it is using. These people must
be using some non standard unicode or something.
 
Only in the Vista groups do I keep seeing usernames like "=?Utf-8?B?
aG9uZXlzYnVubnk=?=" all over the place. I kept thinking it was the
same person who was a troll or something but now I realize it must be
my Xnews newsreader and the default lauguage coding it is using. These
people must be using some non standard unicode or something.
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They are 2-bit characters, usually Japanese characters, and since this is a
Usenet newsgroup, the servers filter them out. You're not really posting to
a web forum, that forum is leeching feeds off another server. Kind of like
a mini-intranet.

Think FidoNet, but more "Internet" based. God I'm old...
 
They are 2-bit characters, usually Japanese characters, and since this
is a Usenet newsgroup, the servers filter them out. You're not really
posting to a web forum, that forum is leeching feeds off another
server. Kind of like a mini-intranet.

Think FidoNet, but more "Internet" based. God I'm old...
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I've been using Usenet since 1993 so know how it works, thanks. Never saw
this when I used Thunderbird for reading news so it must be Xnews that is
causing it.
 
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