[oak perl] Mail Annoyance

[Mark Bole]

George Woolley wrote:

>Recently, I've noticed annoying differences 
>between what I sent to the list 
>and what comes back.  
>Some (all?) end of lines are gone 
>and the last word of one line 
>is combined with the first of the next line.  
>     
>At first, I thought that I was one of the few people affected.  
>But I get a lot of email from various PM lists,
>much of which exhibits the problem, 
>so now I'm less sure.  
>     
>  
>
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I can't offer any solutions, but I can confirm that at least one person 
I correspond with (but so far, only one) quotes my message in reply, and 
the quoted message has the same behavior you describe (newlines replaced 
with nothing).  That person uses x at yahoo.com for a mail address, but I'm 
not sure if they use the web client or a local client.

As for other annoyances, I see occasional postings to 
oracle-l at freelists.org where newlines have been replaces with three 
characters "=20" and then the lines have been re-wrapped.  I also 
correspond with people in an organization that uses Lotus Notes for 
mail, and sometimes my quoted original comes back to me in a tiny font, 
over-indented (=> ugly) HTML display.

I use Netscape 7.1 most of the time for my ISP mail (two POP3 servers, 
one SMTP server) and Usenet browsing.  I've configured it to send both 
HMTL and plain text most of the time, but not really sure if that's the 
best approach, although I haven't heard any complaints (but then most 
people in my experience just accept what they get and won't bother 
mentioning it...).

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Mark Bole
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