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In article  <20070919.1750.70906158snz$@i-m-t.demon.co.uk>
           v$af$ppint@i-m-t.demon.co.uk "ppint. at IMT" writes:

>   - hi; in dipspc article, <1189486887snz@nospam.demon.co.uk>,
>       pete@nospam.demon.co.uk up and announced (in parts):
> >          [with apologies for following-up to self]:
> >
[snip utf-8 stuff]

> >Off to investigate Unicode now...
> >
>         - that took me a bit by surprise, that did - and then it
>         wasn't possible to connect to demon by dial-up a] reliably,
>         b] on 08440416662, c] on 08440996662, and/or any other way
>         from 015395-624xx and/or 01524-3821xx for...
> 
>                        [it still isn't :-((]

I trust it's better now?  Since I came back from hols (which is 
my excuse for the tardy response) things here seem to be back to 
"normal" re: authentication and routing.

>         - um, any update on the ease (or otherwise) of tackling
>         this, and possibly even upon your having accomplished it,
>         awaited with interest (but i cannot promise bated breath).

Still "work in progress"[*].  I might get to take a look this w/e 
and see how simply ignoring the top 8 bits of the Unicode char 
works (or most likely doesn't...)

>         - your next task, "should you choose to accept it", is to
>         identify the simplest way of allowing the use of regexps
>         in the news kill file... *g*

Which version of NET are you using?  I'm using the latest 
official GremNOS here, and notice that my news kill file contains 
regexps -- well, the simplified regexps that wildmat() handles 
anyway like '*', '?' and '[...]' sets.  Seems to work for me.

>         - love, ppint.
>           [the address from which this was posted bounces e-mail;
>            please change the "f" to a "g" and drop the "v" if you
>                       wish to cc. or e-mail me.]

Pete

[*] which of course means I haven't even started yet :-(
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