[Info-vax] Mail reading/processing problem, UTF-8

[Henry Crun]

On 25/08/11 16:46, Richard B. Gilbert wrote:
> On 8/25/2011 5:25 AM, AEF wrote:
>> On Aug 24, 4:57 am, hel... at astro.multiCLOTHESvax.de (Phillip Helbig---
>> undress to reply) wrote:
>>> In article<j329p3$9f... at news.albasani.net>, Jan-Erik Soderholm
>>>
>>> <jan-erik.soderh... at telia.com> writes:
>>>> AEF wrote 2011-08-24 02:48:
>>>
>>>>> "quaint" mail
>>>
>>>> Googled for that but it didn't gave me anything
>>>> reasoanble, as far as I could tell.
>>>
>>> I think Alan was making a joke, quaint (a, errm, quaint English word for
>>> old-fashioned) mail referring to paper mail.
>>
>> Yes, just like Jan-Erik's comment way back about checks being
>> "quaint". (!!!)
>>
>> AEF
>
> Some of us still use checks to pay our bills. Be patient, in forty or fifty
> years most of us will be gone.

To revert to English:
I use checks quite a lot -- as in "check tyre pressure". But nobody will accept 
them as a means of payment. For that, I need cheques.

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