Both emails I sent (one because the system claimed I had not sent it
successfully, were first copied for text only, but I kept getting the
"can't save as draft" signal" because of a strip of red logo I hadn't
pasted, but couldn't delete. So, I re-pasted/twice/, finally
successfully without the red, and sent that out--renamed in the subject.
At this end, I received both emails sent out, and both had no such
errors you received. If others got the same mess, let me know, but I
would suggest it's been written into the website's program to discourage
copying, and those without high-speed might somehow suffer.
Does anyone else have dial-up who received a similar mess? How about any
of those bamboo splits that shot through this way?
Natalia
On 3/10/2011 3:13 AM, Michael Gurstein wrote:
Mike,
I'm seeing this increasingly from certain lists/individuals. Neither I nor
the senders seem to know what to do about it.
Any suggestions.
M
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected]
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mike Spencer
Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2011 3:24 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [Futurework] [META] Re: NYTimes.com: Degrees and Dollars
Natalia wrote:
*Peo\255ple's in\255ter\255est in mu\255sic may be
re\255lat\255ed....
This article copied from http://www.world-science.net/ has what I regard as
an insane typographical feature: Every word is pre-hyphenated with a
non-ASCII byte value. Looking at the original site, I see that it uses *two
different* non-ASCII byte values to pre-hyphenate every word so your
software must have translated those bytes.
Is it not possible with the usual MS Windows tools y'all use, to run stuff
copied from web pages through an editor that will elide this and other
useless artifacts, reducing text to plain ASCII before putting it into
email? And (while I'm griping) is it intentional that many posts to FW are
sent in "quoted-printable" encoding of a Microsoft font that uses non-ASCII
characters and as both text and HTML in "multipart-alternative" MIME
duplication?
Well, maybe doing email in ASCII is too much for a cranky old geezer such as
I, who doesn't even have a facebook page, to ask. If so, I'll just shut up
and go back to making bamboo splits for by buggy whip manufactory.
And I'll try write something substantive on topic next time.
- Mike
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