On Wed, 13 Feb 2008, Mizter T wrote:

P.S. An almost totally off topic question - should I avoid using the
pound sterling symbol "?" when posting to usenet? (I note that Paul's
post above has transferred the symbol into a "?" question mark.)

Yes. I'm only seeing question marks here.

The convention i see most often is to use ISO 4217 currency codes
postnumerically; for instance, i might assert that Sir Ian Blair is bent
as a 3 UKP note.

Incidentally, should you be discussing transactions in the UIC franc,
that's XFU.

tom

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