On Tue, 17 Sep 2013, Ed Vance wrote to Mark Lewis:

 EV> Mark, here is the Tagline I was talking about that
 EV> Notepad has to use the Terminal Font in XP to see it
 EV> properly.

 EV> It has $C4 and $FE in it.

something, either your offline tool or the synchronet bbs you are using, is
stripping those characters out of your messages...

 EV> Remember, I use a DOS Version of MM49, if I was using the
 EV> Windows Version of MM49 I probably couldn't read it.

that may be because the win-1252 character set doesn't have anything for
those characters or it has other characters entirely...

 EV> The Tagline has the words   C H A I N   L I N K  in it.

 EV> What do you use to read messages in this echo?

i use TimED, a sysop's reader/editor that accesses the message bases
directly outside of the bbs...

 EV> ... .............C.H.A.I.N...L.I.N.K...........

the above is all i get here...

 EV> --- MultiMail/MS-DOS v0.49

i do not think it is this...

 EV> ___ SBBSecho 2.12-Linux

more likely this is the culprit stripping out characters above 127...

 EV>  - Origin: telnet & http://cco.ath.cx - Dial-Up: 502-875-8938
 EV> (1:2320/105.1) 

that's (one of??) mike powell's system(s) out of frankfort, kentucky, isn't
it? the origin line indicates that that site's domain is hosted on or by
the christmas islands ;) 

)\/(ark