Hello Michiel!   
      
   20 Apr 11 01:25, you wrote to me:   
      
    RC>> I am not going to sweat it, while he might be offended to have   
    RC>> this pointed out, the number of people in the network with   
    RC>> umlauted names or accented with other symbology, much less those   
    RC>> who spend the time sweating it, are in the extreme minority.   
      
    MV> True.   
      
    MV> However... the ones with OTHER non ASCII characters in their names are   
    MV> not. The majority, if not VAST majority, of Fidonet participants today   
    MV> have the Cyrillic character set as default.   
      
   and yet, a vast majority of those you speak of, stick to themselves and hardly   
   ever mix it up with us on the backbone as you know it, you knowing it as the   
   echoes you know the English speakers to hang out on.   
      
   So like I said...   
      
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