Doctor Who wrote:

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> On Tue, 18 Sep 2007 03:00:15 GMT, Doctor Who <doctorwho@his.surgery> wrote
:
>
> <snipped>
>
> Interesting.  When I attempted to send using ascii within the body of the 
message,
> my usual way in non-binary groups, Agent came back with a warning that if 
I
> continued to post (using ascii) some characters could not be sent as shown
, but
> as "?".  It offered me the usual (default) windows compatible ISO 8859-1.
>
> This might explain some of the problems.   Agent is set up to allow an att
achment
> (non-binary and non-zip) to be wrapped within the body of the message.  Pr
esumably
> this is why it has the non-standard default settings for the encoding and 
char sets.
>
> If I have caused anyone any offence because if this, I most humbly apologize.   I[
/vbcol]

THANK YOU!!

That's a refreshing breath of air. Seriously. Much appreciated. 

[vbcol=seagreen]
> humbly retract all/any insults I may have offered or traded as a result of
 this mistake
> (on my part, I hasten to add).   I should have known about this.   I did n
ot.  I simply
> accepted Agent's default settings without question.   It is my fault entir
ely.
>
> Of course, my sig may still check out as "bad".   If so, I am at a total loss.[/vb
col]

It verifies OK here on this message. But I think other messages you've
signed verified too if they were standard encoding. The trick is to post
your FAQ again and see if the us-ascii setting sticks. If there's odd
characters in your FAQ it may not. 
[vbcol=seagreen]
>
> Doctor Who
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