Hello All, I've mentioned this before, but no one's come up with any suggestions, so I'll try again because this is really extremely annoying and seems to be getting worse.
I frequently receive mail through various mailing lists that has, usually in the middle, a lot of weird characters. This makes the mail at best difficult to read. An example, complete with headers, is below. It happens with both Yahoo lists and lists that use Listserv software. I used to think it only happened with senders using Outlook/Outlook Express, but I noticed at least two messages today from people using other software that had the characters. The only thing I've found that the messages seem to have in common is wrapping - the message lines always fill the whole width of the screen before wrapping. I viewed a couple of the messages in list archives and they show up as a single long line. However, it doesn't happen with every message of this type. It appears that only people using TB! see these characters - people using other software see the message as it should be. So it seems to be that the problem lies with TB!. As I say, it's extremely annoying and some help in tracking down the problem so that it can be fixed would be appreciated. This is one of the messages I received today. It's interesting to note that the text intermingled with the strange characters does not appear in the copy of the message I viewed in the list archives (and appears to have no relation to the rest of the message in any case). Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from listserv.kent.edu (listserv.kent.edu [131.123.72.253]) by mail.oanet.com (8.11.5/8.11.5) with ESMTP id g3EKRN331786 for <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 14:27:23 -0600 Received: from listserv (listserv.kent.edu) by listserv.kent.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 14 Apr 2002 16:31:32 -0400 Received: from LISTSERV.KENT.EDU by LISTSERV.KENT.EDU (LISTSERV-TCP/IP release 1.8d) with spool id 25807334 for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 16:29:45 -0400 Received: from scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net (scaup.mail.pas.earthlink.net) by listserv.kent.edu (LSMTP for Windows NT v1.1b) with SMTP id <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; 14 Apr 2002 16:29:44 -0400 Received: from leg-64-133-14-226-ria.sprinthome.com ([64.133.14.226] helo=bighonker) by scaup.prod.itd.earthlink.net with smtp (Exim 3.33 #1) id 16wqZ2-000396-00; Sun, 14 Apr 2002 13:25:32 -0700 Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: GoldMine [5.50.10424] Content-Type: text/plain Approved-By: Robert Rosenwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Sun, 14 Apr 2002 13:25:30 -0700 Reply-To: Robert Rosenwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sender: Mystery Literature E-conference <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> From: Robert Rosenwald <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Organization: Perfect Niche Software Subject: Re: [DOROTHYL] turn off your HTML Comments: To: Anita K Slate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by mail.oanet.com id g3EKRN331786 X-UIDL: 8a)"!*R&!!Y:d!!l_[!! Unfortunately most people who send HTML formatted email don't know any better. Some think that because it "looks pretty" on their system it will "look pretty" on everybody's. Others are too new to computing to have learned what is proper. And finally some are just too lazy to bother to learn enough about computers, email, and netiquette. All groups, however, should know that there are a significant number of people on the web, I being one of them, who will almost automatically delete HTML formatted email for a variety of reasons not least of which is the security hazard they inherently create. nless the refere¬Êÿ¿³5@ Êÿ¿”Éÿ¿5@ÐA˜Ëÿ¿$Ûÿ¿5@ÐA˜Ëÿ¿”Éÿ¿ Êÿ¿l H8@ e first step to solving writing problems. Maass is Anne Perry's agent. one of the Mrs Jeffries books. H8@ ÜÊÿ¿g ÜÊÿ¿[ ˜Ïÿ¿, nephew an ->To those of you who send messages to DorothyL with HTML code, could you ->please turn it off? ->Yesterday's digest contained a message with code that ended with hundreds ->of " "s which, when converted to my Palm, turned it into a 1770 page ->document that ultimately repeated the first six messages to infinity and ->beyond and truncated the rest of the digest. ->I, for one, would appreciate it. Thanks! ->"Smokey" Brandon, who was happy to pick up Charlaine Harris' LIVING DEAD ->IN DALLAS last night at Auntie's, but is unhappy about the store's ->recently combining used books with new ones Robert Rosenwald Publisher & President Poisoned Pen Press--Publishing Excellence in Mystery 6962 E. 1st Ave. #103, Scottsdale, AZ 85251 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.poisonedpenpress.com 800-421-3976 Vir bonus semper discipulus est -- Best regards, Shauna mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ________________________________________________________ Current Ver: 1.60c FAQ : http://faq.thebat.dutaint.com Unsubscribe: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives : http://tbudl.thebat.dutaint.com Moderators : mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TBTech List: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]