The XML escapes are distracting. I wish I knew how to get my
newsreader how to restore them to characters.
There's no reason it should; it's not declared as XML or similar.
I've been watching this problem for a while, and I'm fairly sure it's
Lew's news client that is at fault for escaping something that did not
merit escaping. Or perhaps it escaped the characters to enable editing
as HTML, then failed to unescape them when converting back to plain
text. I wouldn't be surprised if the client is also mistakenly
unescaping the text when rendering it back, so Lew doesn't see it.
Here's a selection of Lew's posts, from around when it started:
Date
Organization
Problems
Mon, 9 Jul 2012 12:56:02 -0700 (PDT)
http://groups.google.com
None
Mon, 9 Jul 2012 16:14:36 -0700 (PDT)
http://groups.google.com
'
Mon, 9 Jul 2012 16:26:42 -0700 (PDT)
http://groups.google.com
> '
Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:41:26 -0700
albasani.net
None
Mon, 09 Jul 2012 23:47:36 -0700
albasani.net
None
Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:26:33 -0700 (PDT)
http://groups.google.com
None, but no challenge
Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:56:48 -0700 (PDT)
http://groups.google.com
>
Wed, 11 Jul 2012 17:03:11 -0700 (PDT)
http://groups.google.com
"
Sat, 14 Jul 2012 13:01:44 -0700
albasani.net
None
I didn't spot any errors in a quick scan of posts from before the second
row.