Re: gzg-d Digest V2011 #72

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On 28 Nov 2011, at 06:00, gzg-d-request@firedrake.org wrote:

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> 
> gzg-d Digest				Volume 2011 : Issue 72
> 
> Today's Topics:
>  Re: GZG CHRISTMAS SPECIAL OFFERS 201  [ Doug Evans
<devans@nebraska.edu> ]
>  Re: GZG CHRISTMAS SPECIAL OFFERS 201  [ Ground Zero Games
<jon@gzg.com> ]
>  Re: GZG CHRISTMAS SPECIAL OFFERS 201  [ Ground Zero Games
<jon@gzg.com> ]
>  Re: GZG CHRISTMAS SPECIAL OFFERS 201  [ Ground Zero Games
<jon@gzg.com> ]
>  Re: GZG CHRISTMAS SPECIAL OFFERS 201  [ Seamus
<fomorianwolf@gmail.com> ]
>  Re: GZG CHRISTMAS SPECIAL OFFERS 201  [ Roger Burton West
<roger@firedrake. ]
>  Re: GZG CHRISTMAS SPECIAL OFFERS 201  [ Samuel Penn
<sam@glendale.org.uk> ]
>  Re: GZG CHRISTMAS SPECIAL OFFERS 201  [ Ground Zero Games
<jon@gzg.com> ]
> 
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> From: Doug Evans <devans@nebraska.edu>
> Subject: Re: GZG CHRISTMAS SPECIAL OFFERS 2011!
> Date: 27 November 2011 12:52:25 GMT
> To: gzg@firedrake.org
> 
> 
> "1) All orders for 30 or more of goods at list prices..."
> 
> I'm surprised the 'rules lawyers' haven't jumped in. I'm assuming
neither
> 30 pieces nor 30 dollars, but 30 UKP. Thirty pounds sterling. Thirty
pieces
> of silver... At Xmas...
> 
> Hey, not my religion, not my problem. ;->=
> 
> The_Beast
> 
> PS Yes, archaic terminology, but I AM beastly.
> 
> 
> 
> From: Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>
> Subject: Re: GZG CHRISTMAS SPECIAL OFFERS 2011!
> Date: 27 November 2011 14:15:30 GMT
> To: gzg@firedrake.org
> 
> 
>> "1) All orders for 30 or more of goods at list prices..."
>> 
>> I'm surprised the 'rules lawyers' haven't jumped in. I'm assuming
neither
>> 30 pieces nor 30 dollars, but 30 UKP. Thirty pounds sterling. Thirty
pieces
>> of silver... At Xmas...
>> 
>> Hey, not my religion, not my problem. ;->=
>> 
>> The_Beast
>> 
>> PS Yes, archaic terminology, but I AM beastly.
> 
> 
> 
> That's really, really weird.... the email I sent to the list clearly
> and definitely had a UK Pound () symbol before each and every
> price/value - somehow, something in the list has stripped all of them
> out!
> 
> It will be interesting to see if the same symbol has survived in this
> post. Roger, any ideas....?
> 
> Any of you who are also on the SFSFW mailing list can compare with
> the copy of the same post I sent to that, which has all the  symbols
> still there, as does the same cut-and-pasted post on the GZG website.
> 
> Jon (GZG)
> 
> 
> 
> From: Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>
> Subject: Re: GZG CHRISTMAS SPECIAL OFFERS 2011!
> Date: 27 November 2011 14:57:01 GMT
> To: gzg@firedrake.org
> 
> 
>>> "1) All orders for 30 or more of goods at list prices..."
>>> 
>>> I'm surprised the 'rules lawyers' haven't jumped in. I'm assuming
neither
>>> 30 pieces nor 30 dollars, but 30 UKP. Thirty pounds sterling. Thirty
pieces
>>> of silver... At Xmas...
>>> 
>>> Hey, not my religion, not my problem. ;->=
>>> 
>>> The_Beast
>>> 
>>> PS Yes, archaic terminology, but I AM beastly.
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> That's really, really weird.... the email I sent to the list clearly
>> and definitely had a UK Pound () symbol before each and every
>> price/value - somehow, something in the list has stripped all of them
>> out!
>> 
>> It will be interesting to see if the same symbol has survived in this
>> post. Roger, any ideas....?
>> 
>> Any of you who are also on the SFSFW mailing list can compare with
>> the copy of the same post I sent to that, which has all the	symbols
>> still there, as does the same cut-and-pasted post on the GZG website.
>> 
>> Jon (GZG)
> 
> 
> Well, that proves it - there were two POUND symbols in the above post 
> (one between the now-empty brackets - oddly it hasn't even left a 
> space, just removed the character completely), and they have now gone 
> missing too.... Roger, any ideas why the server is doing this?
> 
> Just to be on the safe side I'll have to remember to put either GBP 
> or UKP in future rather than the symbol, when posting to the list....
> 
> Hmmm, I wonder if it does the same with the US dollar symbol? Here 
> goes, if there isn't one here then yes, it does: $
> 
> Jon (GZG)
> 
> 
> 
> From: Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>
> Subject: Re: GZG CHRISTMAS SPECIAL OFFERS 2011!
> Date: 27 November 2011 15:20:23 GMT
> To: gzg@firedrake.org
> 
> 
>>>> "1) All orders for 30 or more of goods at list prices..."
>>>> 
>>>> I'm surprised the 'rules lawyers' haven't jumped in. I'm assuming
neither
>>>> 30 pieces nor 30 dollars, but 30 UKP. Thirty pounds sterling.
Thirty pieces
>>>> of silver... At Xmas...
>>>> 
>>>> Hey, not my religion, not my problem. ;->=
>>>> 
>>>> The_Beast
>>>> 
>>>> PS Yes, archaic terminology, but I AM beastly.
>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> That's really, really weird.... the email I sent to the list clearly
>>> and definitely had a UK Pound () symbol before each and every
>>> price/value - somehow, something in the list has stripped all of
them
>>> out!
>>> 
>>> It will be interesting to see if the same symbol has survived in
this
>>> post. Roger, any ideas....?
>>> 
>>> Any of you who are also on the SFSFW mailing list can compare with
>>> the copy of the same post I sent to that, which has all the  symbols
>>> still there, as does the same cut-and-pasted post on the GZG
website.
>>> 
>>> Jon (GZG)
>> 
>> 
>> Well, that proves it - there were two POUND symbols in the above post
>> (one between the now-empty brackets - oddly it hasn't even left a
>> space, just removed the character completely), and they have now gone
>> missing too.... Roger, any ideas why the server is doing this?
>> 
>> Just to be on the safe side I'll have to remember to put either GBP
>> or UKP in future rather than the symbol, when posting to the list....
>> 
>> Hmmm, I wonder if it does the same with the US dollar symbol? Here
>> goes, if there isn't one here then yes, it does: $
>> 
>> Jon (GZG)
> 
> 
> Mm. Mysteriouser and mysteriouser, as the saying goes.... the dollar 
> sign made it through the server intact. Is it US-designed software 
> that simply doesn't have the UK pound symbol in its character set, 
> maybe?
> 
> Jon (GZG)
> 
> 
> 
> From: Seamus <fomorianwolf@gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: GZG CHRISTMAS SPECIAL OFFERS 2011!
> Date: 27 November 2011 18:46:30 GMT
> To: gzg@firedrake.org
> 
> 
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> On Sun, Nov 27, 2011 at 10:20 AM, Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>
wrote:
> 
>> 
>> Mm. Mysteriouser and mysteriouser, as the saying goes.... the dollar
>> sign made it through the server intact. Is it US-designed software
>> that simply doesn't have the UK pound symbol in its character set,
>> maybe?
>> 
>> Jon (GZG)
> 
> 
> 
> I suppose I'll give it a shot.
> 
> Test: 
> 
> -- 
> You itch! Of COURSE you itch! We ALL itch! Now, shut up and get some
sleep.
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> 
> From: Roger Burton West <roger@firedrake.org>
> Subject: Re: GZG CHRISTMAS SPECIAL OFFERS 2011!
> Date: 27 November 2011 19:14:03 GMT
> To: gzg@firedrake.org
> 
> 
> The list server squashes both HTML and extended character sets down to
> plain ASCII, so that people don't get huge emails. The various
encodings
> of the pound sign don't fit into plain ASCII.
> 
> Looking on the bright side, if it were let through, a significant
> fraction of readers would see it as a meaningless jumble of characters
> anyway...
> 
> Roger
> 
> 
> 
> From: Samuel Penn <sam@glendale.org.uk>
> Subject: Re: GZG CHRISTMAS SPECIAL OFFERS 2011!
> Date: 27 November 2011 19:31:51 GMT
> To: gzg@firedrake.org
> 
> 
> On Sunday 27 November 2011 15:20:23 Ground Zero Games wrote:
>> Mm. Mysteriouser and mysteriouser, as the saying goes.... the dollar
>> sign made it through the server intact. Is it US-designed software
>> that simply doesn't have the UK pound symbol in its character set,
>> maybe?
> 
> The problem is that the 'A' in ASCII stands for 'American', so it's
> actually the very foundation of internet communication for the last
> few decades that has the issue*.
> 
> The sooner the world moves to UTF-8* the better.
> 
> * It's a bit more complicated than that, see Wikipedia if you really
>  care.
> 
> -- 
> Be seeing you,	Games: http://www.glendale.org.uk/
> Sam.			Posts:
http://www.google.com/profiles/samuel.penn
> 
> 
> 
> From: Ground Zero Games <jon@gzg.com>
> Subject: Re: GZG CHRISTMAS SPECIAL OFFERS 2011!
> Date: 27 November 2011 20:23:24 GMT
> To: gzg@firedrake.org
> 
> 
>> The list server squashes both HTML and extended character sets down
to
>> plain ASCII, so that people don't get huge emails. The various
encodings
>> of the pound sign don't fit into plain ASCII.
>> 
>> Looking on the bright side, if it were let through, a significant
>> fraction of readers would see it as a meaningless jumble of
characters
>> anyway...
>> 
>> Roger
> 
> 
> OK then, now that I know, I can try to remember to use either "UKP" 
> or "GBP" as a prefix on all list posts instead of the pound symbol.
> In case I forget, any price in one of my posts should automatically 
> be taken as being in UK pounds sterling unless specified otherwise! 
> ;-)
> 
> Thanks for pointing it out, Doug.  :-)
> 
> Jon (GZG)
> 
>