Hachi,
You apparently use two different newsreaders. One is Pan and the other is the new Windows Mail I believe.
When you use Pan your name appears normally in the topic list and headers of the message.
Example: From: Hachiroku Subject: Re: alt.autos.toyota newsgroup statistics for 02/2008 Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 15:12:09 GMT User-Agent: Pan/0.14.2 (This is not a psychotic episode. It's a cleansing moment of clarity.) Newsgroups: alt.autos.toyota
When you use the other newsreader I get this in my headers:
Example: From: =?iso-2022-jp?q?Hachiroku_=1B$B%O%A%m%=2F=1B=28B?=
Subject: Re: OT Bush tells Nanci P to stick it!!!!!!!!!!! Date: Sat, 01 Mar 2008 04:09:33 GMT Newsgroups: alt.autos.toyota
Do you have any idea why this happens? Is this by design on your part or is it some setting in your newsreader? Your posts are the only ones I see with the weird characters on all the newsgroups I visit.
If you look at the statistics thread I posted earlier you'll see what your name shows up as in the message tree of my newsreader.