The problem is that Buddy and Mike and some others
>are sending posts to the lists in a multi-part Mime-encoded format--
I just made an adjustment to the send options and switched from HTML/MIME
encoded to plain text. Let me know if that clears up the problem for ya!
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-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Slavens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: passenger side <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Sunday, February 07, 1999 1:16 PM
Subject: Re: There must be an answer to this one...
>On Sat, 6 Feb 1999 Richard Flohil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>>I've been noting Joe Gracey's sterling defence of the Mac (I've got one
>>too), but I wonder if it's the fault of this machine (an LC 520) that I
>>when I get the Digest all Mike Hays' and Buddy Rocket's posts come twice -
>>one in English and one in complete, utter, and total gibberish.
>> The English ones are usually thoughtful and/or amusing; the others
>>are a pain in the butt 'cos you've gotta scroll through them, and they're
>>always MUCH longer than the English version.
>> Is there a computer whiz who can explain, in English, why this is
>>so and what, if anything, I can do about it.
>
>I'm no computer expert, so the details might not be exactly accurate, but
>here's the gist of it: notice
>that, in the header portion of those messages, you'll see something like
>
>Content-Type: multipart/alternative;
> boundary="----=_NextPart_000_00C1_01BE5296.368AF140"
>
>instead of
>
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
>So what you're seeing first is a text version of the message, then a
>Mime-encoded HTML-icized version of the post. If you were getting P2 on
>the single-message basis, your mail program would probably handle the
>message just fine, putting the two parts together and displaying it in all
>it's (possible) multi-colored, multi-font glory. Since we're getting it in
>the digest, we see it as two messages, one fairly readable and one
>gibberish. On your mailer, do these posts then hose up the formatting for
>all messages that follow? It does on mine-- Eudora Pro, although it didn't
>on Eudora Light on my old PC. I don't know if there's some tweak I haven't
>found yet on Pro, or if this is "an enhancement."
>
>So, anyway, back to the question, "what can I do about it?" As long as
>we're getting the digest and people send such encoded messages to the list,
>I don't think there's much we can do other than keep hitting the <page
>down> key. . .
>
>Larry
>
>
