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INFAMOUS ASCII EXPERIMENT...

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From: Helen Sternheim
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 03:15
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In a message of <09 Nov 92  23:50:48>, Robert Brault (1:167/130) writes:

 RB>        Seeing that K12 is moving full ahead these days, I wanted to 
 RB>use a channel for a short time (1 week) for the "INFAMOUS ASCII 
 RB>EXPERIMENT" to test our network's reaction to special characters needed 
 RB>with certain languages: french, spanish and german.
 RB>
 RB>        I would invite the german and spanish moderators (and anyone 
 RB>else) to write in the channel assigned in their language with all the 
 RB>"accents" usually needed to see what happens and who sees the 
 RB>characters and who does not.
 RB>
 RB>        For a timeframe, I would suggest from December 4th to December 
 RB>13h wich would give us 1 week plus 2 weekends. 
 RB>
The Channels are not fully booked.  So for a one week porgram I'll say ok.
Lets use Channel 4. 



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