There are two messages from Thomas Tabler in Arachne digest # 1784 that end with a "y" with an umlaut. I can generate this character using Alt+0255.
I received digest #1784 in complete form at AOL and emailed a copy to a friend at another ISP. The digest that she received was truncated before the first "y with umlaut". After a lot of experimentation (which I won't bore you with) I believe that it is her ISP's POP3 server that is truncating any message that has that character in it. Messages that she sends to me with the "y" arrive intact. This behavior does not seem to be affected by different mail clients or operating systems. So, if anyone received a truncated digest #1784, it's your ISP. Does anyone know why those two messages from Thomas have this character inserted at the end? Thomas, the digest doesn't have individual headers, so I can't see which email client you're using. BTW, I have a related question that maybe someone could answer. This is no big deal, but occasionally I receive an Arachne digest at my AOL account that has a colored background instead of the usual white. It seems to me that some character in those particular digests is causing them to be displayed in AOL with a colored background, but I haven't been able to figure out which one. Does anyone know? Just curious. I read my messages outside of AOL so the background disappears anyway. Also, please don't flame me for using AOL and Win98. I also use MS-DOS, SUSE, DR-DOS, Slackware, Arachne, Outlook Express, Pine, Netscape, MSIE, Lynx and on and on, but I am subscribed to the arachne-digest via AOL. Thanks, Binky
