On Wed, 28 May 2003 08:36:13 -0400, Roger Turk wrote:

> Greg Mayman wrote:

> .. > On Tue, 27 May 2003 10:06:48 -0400, Roger Turk wrote:

>> My main modem on my office computer is a Practical Peripherals 28.8 external
>> modem.  I also have a "real" 56K, V.92/V.44 external modem that apparently
> is
>> too fast for Compuserve (at times) that I use to download larger files.

> .. > That's most peculiar! Doesn't your modem "chat" with the one at
> .. > Compuserve to find a speed and protocol that they both can handle?

> Yes, and the phone number that I dial into is a 56K phone number.  (Connect
> speeds are around about 44K.)  But after that, things seem to go downhill.
> It is my understanding from a Compuserve forum that Compuserve likes a
> maximum of about 40K.  It is not a modem to modem problem, but a Compuserve
> problem.

> Roger Turk
> Tucson, Arizona

I first viewed Roger's message quoted above with PINE running on a remote
shell.  Then I exited PINE and closed my connection to the remote shell
and I started up Arachne and downloaded all the messages from my mail
server.

When I viewed Roger's message when using PINE the text body appeared
as though it were all inserted base64 code.  No part of the text body
was humanly legible.

When I downloaded the message with Arachne and viewed it under Arachne
the message was displayed to me in the same way I would see any other
perfectly normal text email message.

This is the first time anything like this has happened in my viewing
of emails.  Normally when I am sent an ordinary text message the
message is displayed by PINE the same way as in Arachne.

What happened?  Comments?

Sam Heywood
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