"Thomas Mueller" <tmueller@bluegrass.net>  wrote:
 > Maybe all those ASCII-160 characters, which show as a with acute accent in
 > extended US-ASCII as used by DOS and OS/2, confused the list server?  Maybe the
 > list server didn't recognize that those ASCII-160 characters were really
 > supposed to be spaces (ASCII-32)?

How do you figure 160==32?  Is this some sort of new math?

A space is a space. If it's a 160, then it's not a space.