[wp-forums] mod watch...

Half-Elf on Tech ipstenu at halfelf.org
Thu Aug 28 16:03:32 UTC 2014


Short answer: Email here is done by mailman which is older and crankier 
than Otto.

Use PLAIN TEXT email. No more problems.

And ignore Otto on the double-space. Us older typists have bad habits. I 
only broke it 3 years ago.

John Fridinger wrote:
>
> Otto, thanks for the contact possibilities, and your response. And as 
> you say a problem I do not have is one I do not need to solve.
>
> And even more curious mystery now for this one, seeing my last message 
> in the context of the digest email. There are a lot of actual question 
> marks appearing throughout my message, mostly where I have used 
> ellipses, which I often do. But not all of the ellipses, a couple in 
> the last paragraph got through. The question marks also appear 
> wherever I have used hyphens, as in I’ve, rather than "I have."
>
> When I look back at the digest with my first message you responded to, 
> I see the same occurring there, though that message originally 
> included less ellipses, which I tend to do when I am attempting to be 
> more formal. 😊
>
> Because you say the question mark I see in your post was a copied and 
> pasted weird A character, and because of some of the conversation 
> around the character, I can not help now but wonder if those ellipses 
> and hyphens become question marks could have briefly been, somewhere 
> on their journey between here and there and back, the weird characters?
>
> That last is the only real question mark in this message, there is one 
> hyphen, and this is the only ellipse…
>
> Kind regards,
> John.
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