On Saturday 01 June 2002 10:41 pm, Frans Ketelaars wrote: > On 01 Jun 2002 23:18:37 +1000 > Brian Parish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <snip> > > > I think you may have experienced the same scenario as me Kaj. I have > > sent the message below twice now, with different subjects and it has > > failed to show in either version, while other posts I sent before and > > after were showing up as usual. Can anyone recall seeing this text? > > It's in reply to the recent thread on Quake 3. > > > > --------------------- > > I finally got around to doing this (not that I play games of course ;-) > > and would like to post a small word of warning about the scenario that > > just bit me: > > <snip> > > I searched my inbox and it's not there :) > > -Frans
Nor is it in mine. Now that I've had some time to think about it, maybe I have some sort of explanation - well, it's only a theory : Maybe those mails that never show up contains one - or more - characters that the mail-server doesn't like. For example, those of us who live in countries with a slightly different character-set, like Scandinavia, Germany, France etc. are sometimes a little uncautious : inadvertantly we could type a character outside the ASCII-7-bit system. (I won't give an example here, 'cause that might trigger the anaphylactic reaction, eh ?). Or, - slightly related : When I reviewed my rejected post concerning spam, I noticed that I had used some special characters like dollar-signs, tildes, exclamations-marks, brackets etc... To clarify, I'll quote from my rejected message as follows : <quote> "...6. Yesterday, a danish newspaper (Berlingske Tidende) described a very gruesome retaliation : Find some really xxxxxx-porn-site on the web who offers to send you e-mails with xxxxxx-pics. Fill in the spammers e-mail-address and let him taste his own medicine ! (never tried it - yet). Will it work ?...." </quote> In the original post, those xxxxx were "graphical-special-characters" to illustrate my disgust. I figure the list-server has sentiments equalling mine ! Regards Kaj Haulrich Denmark
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