[Ads-l] Don't make English official, ban it instead

[Galen Buttitta]

Is there a way to upgrade the listserv software so that these encoding glitches, including the most common and less severe ones, don't happen?

> On Feb 22, 2015, at 01:05, Baron, Dennis E <debaron at ILLINOIS.EDU> wrote:
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> Poster:       "Baron, Dennis E" <debaron at ILLINOIS.EDU>
> Subject:      Don't make English official, ban it instead
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