Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxx.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!harpo!ihnp4!ihuxx!jchvr From: jchvr@ihuxx.UUCP (jchvr) Newsgroups: net.flame Subject: Re: Ok, you asked for it : it's not fair! DUMB ASCII Message-ID: <675@ihuxx.UUCP> Date: Mon, 20-Feb-84 09:25:28 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxx.675 Posted: Mon Feb 20 09:25:28 1984 Date-Received: Tue, 21-Feb-84 04:02:23 EST References: <665@ihuxq.UUCP> <312@ihuxo.UUCP> <670@ihuxx.UUCP> <914@ihuxr.UUCP> <671@ihuxx.UUCP> <7142@mgweed.UUCP> Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 30 < >> Now finally we are getting to the bottom of things: < >> < >> ASCII ISN'T GOOD FOR ANYTHING BUT ENGLISH. < < How about that! AMERICAN Standard Code for Information Interchange. I < don't see anything in there about any other country, and the language < of choice here is English. < < Let the rest of them come up with their *own* standards. "That's the nice < thing about standards - there's so many to choose from..." (Tanenbaum) < < It's not Asshole's Suckjaw Code for Idiotic Isolence either, so ENUFF! < < Randy King < AT&T/CP-MG < ihnp4!mgweed!rjk Come to think of it maybe ASCII code was developed by the CIA to keep YOU people from talking over the netnews to others. This means that you will be safely kept in your cocoon of hamburgers, wombats, 55 mile limits (Is that the distance that you are allowed to travel or what?), net.jokes and rotate-13. But anyway WE should really be making or own standards: En dan nu dus maar weer wat nederlands met daarin enkele voor de AMERIKANEN bekenden kreten als KGB en CIA en andere zaken om ze achter dochtig te maken. Voor diegenen die dit lezen kunnen: waneer zie ik eens wat uit holland.