"Julie Bove" > wrote in message
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> "Ellen K." > wrote in message
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>>I bet it's the accented a (à) in "vis-à-vis" in the title, sorry your
>>newsreader doesn't like it.
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>> You can reply here, I'll read it.
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> Actually I can reply sometimes. That part doesn't make sense.
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It might depend whose message you're trying to reply to, I see that some
people's newsreaders convert the à to a question mark, maybe the ones that
don't convert it are the ones to which you can't reply.