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I actually meant to ask this for a long time. Below is an artifact
of a message in plain text, which contains escaped characters like
`\222'. In the header it shows as:

,----[ Headers snippage ]
| Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
| Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
`----
,----[ Here's an example of what I see in the buffer ]
| “By offering a free ISP service, we will provide the type of
| technologically advanced virtual Internet service that our customers
| demand,” said Derek J. Burney, executive vice-president, engineering and
| chief technology officer of Corel Corporation.  “Not only is the service
| free, but there are no streamed advertisements that impact the
| consumer’s Internet experience.”
`----

So, those `\XXX' symbols don't get decoded in whatever they were meant
to show as.  Is this a bug in Gnus or the mailer of the author, which
originated the message?

Thanks!
-- 
Arcady Genkin
Nostalgia isn't what it used to be.