Diagnose This! (A puzzler)

Avery Todd avery@ev1.net
Wed, 16 Jul 2003 16:44:04 -0500


Bill,

WHAT did you say????? :-)

Avery

At 12:17 AM 07/16/03 -0400, you wrote:
>At 9:01 PM -0500 7/15/03, Ron Nossaman wrote:
>>A question of my own. How is it your not all that long post is 16k long, 
>>but Avery's reply, with your post included in it's entirety, is only 5k long?
>>
>>16+2=5
>>
>>E-math.
>
>I bet it's those eccentric apostrophes he's sending out. As rendered by my 
>Eudora, his open-quotes are lower case "i"s with the dot replaced by an 
>accent aigu (?) (you know, the "4 o'clock" accent). Closed quotes, the dot 
>is replaced by a "^". A comma is an upper case "O" with an umlaut. The 
>apostrophe is the lower case "i" with an accent grave for a dot. (I can't 
>find my high school French textbook. Can you tell?)
>
>Alan, are you writing your emails in MS Word, or something else which has 
>"smart quotes"? Or are we looking at 2-bit encryption.
>
>Mr. Bill
>
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>Sheep be true.......Baa, Ram, Ewe"
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