[oak perl] Mail Annoyance
Mark Bole
mark at bincomputing.com
Fri May 13 09:28:49 PDT 2005
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.
>
>
>
[...]
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
http://www.bincomputing.com
925-287-0366
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