Hi Frank, >>>>> "Frank" == Frank E Harrell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>>> on Thu, 26 Aug 2004 09:08:39 -0500 writes:
Frank> Sorry about non-indenting of quoted text - I haven't Frank> figured out a good way to answer mail when receiving Frank> messages in digest mode -FH use a mail client that can "undigest" (Emacs RMAIL, VM or GNUS all do) ;-) No, more seriously: I'm sure your Mozilla mail reader is capable deal with "MIME Attachments". Now there's an option to receive digests either in "traditional digest format" (called "plain text") (which good ol' 'mailers *can* undigestify!) or in MIME format: after the table of contents, the whole bunch is "multipart/digest" and insidere there, every message is a (nicely encapsulated) MIME entity of "Content-Type: message/rfc822" For traditional reasons, the default digest format is "plain", since the MIME digests really look horrendous in non-MIME-capable e-mail clients. But I do recommend to also choose "MIME" when you choose "digest". With the web interface to mailman, you go to your personal option page (you need the your mailman password for that which you should get once per month and can get sent again by clicking somewhere) and the third entry in the option table is >> Get MIME or Plain Text Digests? >> >> Your mail reader may or may not support MIME digests. In general >> MIME digests are preferred, but if you have a problem reading >> them, select plain text digests. There, you can not only select MIME, but also select "[Set globally]" which sets this for all mailing lists on stat.ethz.ch to which you are subscribed. ------------ Note that *instead* of the Web / GUI interface to the mailing list, you can use email 'To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]' ^^^^^^^^ (please!) and on unix like systems, you can even do the following in the shell: echo password | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] and you'll get your passwor by e-mail within a few minutes and then send the two lines set authenticate <<your_password>> set digest mime to the same address, or in one ugly shell line (which will probably be wrapped around before you read it!) : (echo set authenticate <<password>> ; echo set digest mime) | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED] and to turn off "digest" and revert to regular replace 'mime' by 'off' in the above. -- Hoping this is of general help, Martin Maechler ______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list https://stat.ethz.ch/mailman/listinfo/r-help PLEASE do read the posting guide! http://www.R-project.org/posting-guide.html