There is the possiblity that the mail sent by Jim was fine, but somewhere in
the transmission and subsequent re-transmission  the mail message was
modified. I cannot see a commercial product getting the HTML tags so wrong. 
A sinister scenario is that the mail was intercepted, parsed for content,
then passed on. Some junior developer was working on the sinister software,
and made a mistake. The mistake was corrected later, which would explain why
Jim's messages are fine now.
Hummm... 
Not that I am paranoid - but something changed the mail!
Nerd From Hell



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Marvin Long, Jr. [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2002 6:58 AM
> To: Brin-L
> Subject: Re: HTML? (was: Re: It's a sad, sad day for space flight....)
> 
> 
> On Fri, 22 Feb 2002, Jim Sharkey wrote:
> 
> >
> > Doesn't seem that I can. Now that you've refreshed my memory, I have
> > investigated this some time in the past, and it looks like 
> I can't change
> > it.
> 
> Y'know, I read mail PINE on a shell account, and I never 
> notice HTML in
> Jim's posts.  But I do frequently see it in the spam I receive.  What
> about Jim's tags would make them different from spammers' tags?

Jim's tags are wrong. the line break should be <br> not <br />. 

> 
> Marvin Long
> Austin, Texas
> 
> 

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