On 6/5/02 10:24 PM, "Rich Hansen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Well Beth Rosengard wrote something or other on 6/5/02 10:00 PM > >> Huh? This happened on a newsgroup server where the funkiness was there for >> the whole world to see. I wasn't even one of the posters. I was just >> observing. > Ah, newsgroups servers are mostly quite archaic and haven't a clue. They > can't for the most part get the clues which tell email clients which > platform and which client you're using. Thus the server saw a Mac's � and > read it as a pc's whatever it is and transmitted it to the entire group. > > The most common problems in newsgroups are curly quotes both single and > double and dieresis. But generally speaking you can send either plain text or HTML to a newsgroups on the Microsoft new Server from a Mac and everything, including upper-ASCII characters, comes out OK for both Mac and Windows recipients. Still there must indeed be something about converting HTMP to plain and then sending that's causing confusion on the server. (Unless it's Allen's SMTP server that's doing it, which is possible.) -- Paul Berkowitz -- To unsubscribe: <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> archives: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.letterrip.com/> old-archive: <http://www.mail-archive.com/entourage-talk%40lists.boingo.com/>
