Re: [baidarka] Was paddle, now TY's formatting (fwd)


Subject: Re: [baidarka] Was paddle, now TY's formatting (fwd)
From: Tom Yost (tom_yost@msn.com)
Date: Wed Jul 30 2003 - 09:16:39 EDT


Thanks Bill. I'll give yahoo a try. I can't post attachments, but LINKS work

fine.

Tom

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  From: Bill

  To: baidarka@paddlewise.net

  Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 2:50 AM

  Subject: Re: [baidarka] Was paddle, now TY's formatting (fwd)

  Well, here's what might be causing it:

  X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: from multipart/alternative by demime 0.92b

  X-Converted-To-Plain-Text: Alternative section used was text/plain

  Picked this up from the full headers. Your mail seems to have come in

  through hotmail--look at the fourth and fifth "Received: " lines below. It
looks like the

  messages had html or mime formatting; MIME is usually used to

  communicate information about attachments, I think. Cyclone.mudpuppies.com,
a BSD server, removes all

  the html and mime formatting with a program called deMIME. According to

  deMIME's page at freshmeat.net (freshmeat is an open-source software

  projects site):

  http://freshmeat.net/projects/demime/?topic_id=29%2C861

  deMIME reads a piece of e-mail from standard input. It is designed to be

  invoked directly as an alias program in /etc/aliases, or by using

  majordomo's wrapper program. It attempts to remove all MIME cruft from the

  piece of mail, including alternative sections and attachments, and output

  simple plain text, rendered as well as it possibly can.

  Too put it more succinctly and less politely, M$ is adding extraneous

  stuff to yer email (which many folks feel ought to be in plain text), and

  our courageous open-source mail server is removing the extraneous stuff

  and screwing up the formatting of the plain text which remains.

  deMIME might also prevent one from sending attachments, such as pictures;

  anybody know if we are unable to send attachments to the list?

  You could try sending email from a different service, like yahoo.

  Bill

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  Subject: Re: [baidarka] Was paddle, now TY's formatting

  Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 21:41:22 -0600

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  Reply-To: baidarka@paddlewise.net

    Such an irrelevant post is mine ;-) I've been on the list for only a few

    weeks, and have been confounded all that time by the formatting on Tom's

    posts. It seems that every post is double-, triple-, or quad-spaced and

    the text lines are only about half as long, or less, than the others.

    I'm wondering if my mail reader is doing something wierd to his emails,

    or if his mail client uses different formatting options than most. BTW,

    the short lines go away on the "reply text", as seen below.

    As I say, trivial question, but I do wonder. If it is done on your end,

    Tom, how do you do it???

    Cheers/Don Carron

    Beats me ? When I post to this list, my email looks fine, but

    when I receive the post after submission, it looks the way you describe.

    I asked about this a while back, but no one responded. This only happens
on

  this

    list.

    When it occurs, there also seems to be missing time. Must be aliens. Ha!

    Tom

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