Welcome to this Usenet group.
The following just an FYI and no response is needed.

Since the post showed up here, the test failed.
Do you know about the 400+ test groups on Usenet?

Some interesting information about test posts may be found in
http://livinginternet.com/u/uu_test.htm

Please use something like alt.test or misc.test for testing.
For binary test, use something like alt.binaries.test

For a more productive Usenet exeprience, please, read
http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
and http://tgos.org/newbie/index2.html

For odd punctuation marks seen at end of text, you might look at
http://community.the-underdogs.org/smiley/gallery.htm