Howd, i use as little Microsoft junk as possible. R. David
> Subject: RE: EXTERNAL:Re: CS>Some Items Available at an Indian Grocery > Date: Thu, 1 Jul 2010 10:20:17 -0500 > From: stephen.nor...@ngc.com > To: silver-list@eskimo.com > > 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> > > _________________________________________________________________ The New Busy is not the old busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_3
