I just selected plain text in Outlook. I have no idea what Outlook does with it. I have noted that the Outlook plain text messages I send seem to be larger in size than I would expect.
- Steve N -----Original Message----- From: M. G. Devour [mailto:mdev...@eskimo.com] Sent: Thursday, July 01, 2010 4:11 AM To: silver-list@eskimo.com Subject: EXTERNAL:Re: CS>Some Items Available at an Indian Grocery Ruth writes: > I received two blank emails... this one and one with RE: EXTERNAL in > the subject line. I wouldn't think so, but could this have anything to > do with the recent list outage? Shouldn't have anything to do with that, Ruth! > If not, what gives? Anyone know? Looking at the source code of Steve's message, the following headers describe how it's formatted... Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64 x-cr-puzzleid: {B8FECC94-E7E2-4C14-8043-E46BE669AF9B} x-cr-hashedpuzzle: [a bunch of gobbledygook, snipped!] Content-class: urn:content-classes:message The actual body of the text was not readable as plain text, but was a huge block of seemingly random characters. That is at least because of the 'base64' encoding, but also the UTF-8 and whatever this hashedpuzzle stuff is are probably adding to the mess... So your mail program (Outlook Express) is being confused by the elaborate formatting of Steve's message, I'm afraid. Now, I'd typically blame Outlook for being not particularly good at following standards, thanks to Microsoft's bloated ego... but I do wonder what all that extra encoding is for, Steve? Be well, Mike D. [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [mdev...@eskimo.com ] [Speaking only for myself... ] -- The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. Rules and Instructions: http://www.silverlist.org Unsubscribe: <mailto:silver-list-requ...@eskimo.com?subject=unsubscribe> Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/silver-list@eskimo.com/maillist.html Off-Topic discussions: <mailto:silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com> List Owner: Mike Devour <mailto:mdev...@eskimo.com>
