On 24 3 2003 at 6:36 pm -0500, Adeline Moore wrote:

>OK fine. I'll change the prefs in PM. But the problem I have is this: the
>sent message is *not* in my out box and my original mail was returned as
>an attachment and I can't find anything with which to open it! So, I have
>no way to re-send my original message in the ISO-8859-1 character set the
>list insists I use.

How about a text editor like BBEdit Lite?

Or as a matter of fact, the Open Text File... command from the File menu,
while you are composing a new message in PowerMail?

>PS. Can anyone tell me why a list would demand a particular character set?

Probably for consistency amongst its subscribers; if it's compiling a
digest or whatever, then all participants can be assured of a homogeneous
character set.

-ben

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