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MLOM - 30 Oct 2007 04:24 GMT

Just for grins...top ten indicators you are a veteran of r.a.d:

10) You are familiar with the acronyms MFFY, LLB and JLEDI.

9) You look for, or submit, information on highway Darwin™ contenders.

8) You have offered to bet a beer with Hector.

7) You await a fresh acronym fo necromancer's .sig.

6) You conclude that it's less dangerous to shoot a video while
driving than to view one.

5) You determine that the worst hazards on the road are drivers and
cops.

4) In discussions about driver distractions, you include the
speedometer.

3) You have ever picked on Scott over his Banana™ colored Corvette.

2) You see a truck accident and immediately consider nominating the
driver for a GPSTroll Award™.

1) You are part of the investigative team on the inquiry into S&DDAM's
speeding habits and issue evasions.

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necromancer - 30 Oct 2007 06:43 GMT

MLOM:

> Just for grins...top ten indicators you are a veteran of r.a.d:

Many grins received. Thanx for the laff.....

> 10) You are familiar with the acronyms MFFY, LLB and JLEDI.
>
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>
> 7) You await a fresh acronym fo necromancer's .sig.

ROTFLMAO!!! ;)
(see below, BTW) ;-P

> 6) You conclude that it's less dangerous to shoot a video while
> driving than to view one.

Well, mount the camera somehow and don't mess with it while driving and
it is less dangerous.

> 5) You determine that the worst hazards on the road are drivers and
> cops.
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>
> 3) You have ever picked on Scott over his Bananaâ=3F¢ colored Corvette.

I don't think I've done that. Yet....

> 2) You see a truck accident and immediately consider nominating the
> driver for a GPSTroll Awardâ=3F¢.
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>
> "You can't be serious!" -- John McEnroe

BTW, what's up with the subject line? Usenet having a fit or an
allergic reaction to GPStroll's spit takes? I had to clean it up before
I could post the reply (this is what came through on my end:
=?utf-8?q?Tonight's_r=2Ea=2Ed_Top_Ten_list=E2=84=A2?= ).

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MLOM - 30 Oct 2007 22:54 GMT

On Oct 30, 12:43 am, necromancer

> MLOM:
>
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> Well, mount the camera somehow and don't mess with it while driving and
> it is less dangerous.

Of course. Got to avoid being nominated for a krl rgrz award.

> > 5) You determine that the worst hazards on the road are drivers and
> > cops.
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> M orons
> A ssociation

I'm not sure what newsreader you use, but Google handled it fine. Saw
other buggy results in some of the text (the trademark sign came up in
your reply as â=3F¢ (weird). Looks to me like the subject line was
converted to HTML or some equivalent.

Another one came to mind as a possible #2 (bumping #2-10 to 3-11):
You watch a certain well-known TV court case show and refer to it as
*Aunt* Judy.

"The fastest way to lose 30 pounds is to take British currency to the
casino." -mlom

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Scott in SoCal - 31 Oct 2007 02:21 GMT

>On Oct 30, 12:43 am, necromancer

>> BTW, what's up with the subject line? Usenet having a fit or an
>> allergic reaction to GPStroll's spit takes? I had to clean it up before
>> I could post the reply (this is what came through on my end:
>> =?utf-8?q?Tonight's_r=2Ea=2Ed_Top_Ten_list=E2=84=A2?= ).
>
>I'm not sure what newsreader you use, but Google handled it fine.

It's that non-ASCII "TM" charcater you stuck on the end. Lots of
newsreaders can't handle special characters in the header of a post
and will puke on that.

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Murderous Speeding Drunken Distracted Driver (Hector Goldstein) - 31 Oct 2007 03:07 GMT

>>On Oct 30, 12:43 am, necromancer
>
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>newsreaders can't handle special characters in the header of a post
>and will puke on that.

Yeah, NNTP is a 7 bit protocol, not 8.

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necromancer - 31 Oct 2007 03:29 GMT

Scott in SoCal:

> It's that non-ASCII "TM" charcater you stuck on the end. Lots of
> newsreaders can't handle special characters in the header of a post
> and will puke on that.

Looks like what my reader did.... :/

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Arif Khokar - 31 Oct 2007 04:18 GMT

> It's that non-ASCII "TM" charcater you stuck on the end. Lots of
> newsreaders can't handle special characters in the header of a post
> and will puke on that.

In the source, the subject header line was encoded as a UTF-8 string.
This was also combined with the MIME header "Content-Type: text/plain;
charset="utf-8" which allowed my newsreader to properly interpret it.

I'll add a few extended ASCII characters to the subject line and see
what happens. I suspect they'll be rendered without problems no matter
whether the news reader handles MIME types or not.

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Scott in SoCal - 31 Oct 2007 05:11 GMT

>> It's that non-ASCII "TM" charcater you stuck on the end. Lots of
>> newsreaders can't handle special characters in the header of a post
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>This was also combined with the MIME header "Content-Type: text/plain;
>charset="utf-8" which allowed my newsreader to properly interpret it.

But the MIME *headers* only refer to the *content* - after all, the
Subject: line is part of the header, and there's no MIME header for
the header. :)

>I'll add a few extended ASCII characters to the subject line and see
>what happens. I suspect they'll be rendered without problems no matter
>whether the news reader handles MIME types or not.

I suspect that the results will vary from newsreader to newsreader.

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MLOM - 31 Oct 2007 04:24 GMT

> >On Oct 30, 12:43 am, necromancer
> >> BTW, what's up with the subject line? Usenet having a fit or an
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> newsreaders can't handle special characters in the header of a post
> and will puke on that.

I guess at almost 44 lessons are still possible :| The safe way in
the headers is use just the standard keys. Thanks for the tip.

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Murderous Speeding Drunken Distracted Driver (Hector Goldstein) - 31 Oct 2007 00:16 GMT

>Just for grins...top ten indicators you are a veteran of r.a.d:
>
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>
>"You can't be serious!" -- John McEnroe

ROTFLMAO.

Nice. Very nice.

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I must be doing something right to go 3 1/2 years without a fatal crash.

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