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I don't know whats up with this ?
I use Windows 98se and Outlook Express. I quite often receive email with a lot of ?
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Or from a lot of senders? The <BR> is html, the other could be unicode.
If it's one sender only, it's his problem, not yours. But it might be interesting to see such a mail. If you click on my name below, you'll be able to send me a message. Put your email address in the body of the message (sometimes the forum software does it, sometimes not) and I'll reply you with my email adress and than you can forward such a message to me to study.
No guarantee at all for any solution, but just curious.
Kees
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But it wasn't very helpful.
The <br> you mentioned did me expect some strange html mail, but this was text only with - indeed - an amazing number of ?
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The mail originated in the USA and was sent to a friend in the UK before getting to me. I believe the USA person is an 86 year old lady so I won't bother her with this but I think your explanation of a 'cut and paste' from the Internet and/or an unusual character set is the most likely fault.
I did try copying it into MS-Word and trying various fonts to see if it produced a pattern or special font shape but no luck. By using MS-Word?s 'Replace' option, I could filter out the whole thing and make the mails readable anyway.
Many thanks to everyone for your time and trouble.
Mike
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A 86 year old lady sending this joke from http://www.jokecrazy.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=1325
(and more than 100 other places, if you google, but this was the first hit) around to her friends. This will be hit #101. My mother is 86 also, and she's never even touched a computer. And if she did, she wouldn't be interested in jokes like this, I'm sure.
A little boy goes to his father and asks "Daddy, how was I born?"
The father answers: "Well son, I guess one day you will need to find out anyway! Your Mom and I first got together in a chat room on Yahoo. Then I set up a date via e-mail with your Mom and we met at a cyber-cafe.We sneaked into a secluded room, where your mother agreed to a download from my hard drive. As soon as I was ready to upload, we discovered that neither one of us had used a firewall, and since it was too late to hit the delete button, nine months later a little Pop-Up appeared that said: You got Male!!!"
Kees
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