Re: Why do I nkeep seeing users like honeysbunny here?

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"Andy [YaYa]" <android8675@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
news:Xns9ADC512BD1D1Candroid8675hotmailco@xxxxxxxxxxxxx:

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...


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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