Hi, some people have complained of getting the mails from this list in totally confused format, filled with mysterious codes. If you get lots of those, you can try the following instructions. This should help especially if some of those codes contain the number 8859-1, and/or if you get multiple messages in each mail.
You need to know - your mail address - your password for the list (but see below) 1) Go to the lists web page http://www.haandbryg.dk/mailman/listinfo/brygforum 2) Scroll to the bottom of the page, where you can see a button labeled "Edit options" 3) Near that button is a text box. Enter your email address there. This must be the same address as where the mailing list stuff is sent to! 4) Click on the "Edit Options" button 5) You should get to a new page that starts with "Brygforum configuration for"... 6) If you do not remember your password (who ever does?), click on the button "Email my password to me". Soon you should get a mail with your password in it. 7) Scroll down to the bottom of the page, where you see seven grey boxes, each containing some sort of configuration option. 8) The second box says "Set Digest mode". Click on the OFF button. 9) At the bottom of the page is a text box labeled Password. Type your password in it. 10) Click the button "Submit my changes". 11) If you get to a small page that says "Brygforum Results You gave the wrong password", start from the beginning, and follow the instructions up to (and including) point 6. 12) If you got to a page that says that things went all right, your problem should be solved. Technical explanation (you do not have to read nor understand this, but I thought someone might be curious). Computers deal with numbers. They give each letter in the alphabet a numerical code. Since computers were invented in the USA, they quickly established a numbering system for the letters used there (A-Z). The way other letters were handled was not taken so seriously, and various differnet alternative systems were developed around the world. Naturally, great confusion followed. To sort out the confusion, they invented a way to say which kind of numbering scheme is being used. These days a very common is scheme is called ISO-8859-1. The program that sends the mailing list out tries to handle various numbering systems (properly called character encodings). It can do this pretty well when it is working on one mail at a time. But it can also be set to collect a bigger pile of mails into a pile, and to send this pile in one go. Many people have set it up this way. Unfortunately, it will get mightly confused when it does this, and transmits those mysterious codes directly. The instructions above tell the program to send your mailing list stuff one mail at a time. This directs it to work around the place where it would get confused. As a side benefit you get your mailing list stuff quicker, as it does not have to wait to collect a pile of mails. On the other hand, you get more mail this way. -- Heikki Levanto [EMAIL PROTECTED] "In Murphy We Turst"
