ensuring a font is used...

[Morgan]

Yah, this all occured to me some time after posting (hits head of self
with monitor).

 

[Beauregard T. Shagnasty]

Yah, this all occured to me some time after posting (hits head of
self with monitor).

Once you get a new monitor, see this page:
http://www.safalra.com/special/googlegroupsreply/

Then, consider using a real newsreader and server. Do note that lots
of regular Usenet posters are killfiling all posts from Google Groups
because they don't quote in their replies.