Re: Gratuitous Numerics (was induced emf again)

[John Mallinckrodt <ajmallinckro@CSUPOMONA.EDU>]

On Sun, 5 May 2002, Brian Whatcott wrote:

> On the basis of very little more than prejudice, I speculate that if a
> moderator should review posts for publication through a product of
>   the Evil Empire, punctuation of the carriage return type or other
>   punctuation will give rise to a numeric code.

I think I parse this as suggesting the possible involvement of
MSWord.  My email habits, however, are generally far more
primitive.  I still use PINE and type my responses directly into
its editor. I note that the archive versions do not include the
offending characters in either my post or JD's which, on my
screen, substituted little diamond-shaped characters for the
"cross product" symbols.  I further notice that my second post
arrived intact.  Perhaps it was all just a fleeting manifestation
of the chrono-synclastic infundibulum.

John Mallinckrodt      mailto:ajm@csupomona.edu
Cal Poly Pomona          http://www.csupomona.edu/~ajm