=?UTF-8?B?Ik1hcnRpbiB2LiBMw7Z3aXMi?= <mar...@v.loewis.de> wrote: >I don't think that was the complaint. Instead, the complaint was >that the OP's original message did not have a Content-type header, >and that it was thus impossible to tell what the byte in front of >"Wiki" meant. To properly post either MICRO SIGN or GREEK SMALL LETTER >MU in a usenet or email message, you really must use MIME. (As both >your article and Thorsten's did, by choosing UTF-8)
MIME only applies Internet e-mail messages. RFC 1036 doesn't require nor give a meaning to a Content-Type header in a Usenet message, so there's nothing wrong with the original poster's newsreader. In any case what the original poster really should do is come up with a better name for his program Ross Ridge -- l/ // Ross Ridge -- The Great HTMU [oo][oo] rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca -()-/()/ http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rridge/ db // -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list