On Friday, June 27, 2003, at 04:30 PM, Clayton wrote:
Are all the hieroglyphics in Hans Pizka's messages because he is using rich
text to send? All the '=3D' stuff and '=B4' for an apostrophe? PLEASE if
you are using HTML change it to plain text for sending to the List.


I never see any of the ASCII or HTML encoding that seems to be appearing in your e-mail. It may be worth reviewing your Preferences.


This is a fairly frequent topic on the Mailman-users mailing list :-)


The problems with Hans' emails show up mainly in the digest and the archives. Outlook and Outlook Express violate many accepted international email protocols, not to mention their susceptibility to viruses and Trojan horses. As far as I can tell (and I've been aware of the problems for some time and have tried with partial success to fix them) the problems in the digest and archives are due to a combination of Outlook's non-standard email formatting, and using the western European character set ISO-8859-1. Either of those conditions seem to be handled fine by themselves, but the combination confuses Mailman.

Bottom line: it's not Hans's fault, it's Microsoft's and to a lesser extent, Mailman's.

DP

Dan Phillips
Professor of Horn, University of Memphis
site administrator: music.memphis.edu

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