Hello All,
I've mentioned this before, but no one's come up with any
suggestions, so I'll try again because this is really extremely
annoying and seems to be getting worse.
I frequently receive mail through various mailing lists that has,
usually in the middle, a lot of weird characters. This makes the
mail at best difficult to read. An example, complete with
headers, is below. It happens with both Yahoo lists and lists
that use Listserv software. I used to think it only happened with
senders using Outlook/Outlook Express, but I noticed at least two
messages today from people using other software that had the
characters. The only thing I've found that the messages seem to
have in common is wrapping - the message lines always fill the
whole width of the screen before wrapping. I viewed a couple of
the messages in list archives and they show up as a single long
line. However, it doesn't happen with every message of this type.
It appears that only people using TB! see these characters -
people using other software see the message as it should be. So
it seems to be that the problem lies with TB!. As I say, it's
extremely annoying and some help in tracking down the problem so
that it can be fixed would be appreciated.
This is one of the messages I received today. It's interesting to
note that the text intermingled with the strange characters does
not appear in the copy of the message I viewed in the list
archives (and appears to have no relation to the rest of the
message in any case).
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Subject: Re: [DOROTHYL] turn off your HTML
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Unfortunately most people who send HTML formatted email don't know any better. Some
think that because it "looks pretty" on their system it will "look pretty" on
everybody's. Others are too new to computing to have learned what is proper. And
finally some are just too lazy to bother to learn enough about computers, email, and
netiquette. All groups, however, should know that there are a significant number of
people on the web, I being one of them, who will almost automatically delete HTML
formatted email for a variety of reasons not least of which is the security hazard
they inherently create.
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->To those of you who send messages to DorothyL with HTML code, could you
->please turn it off?
->Yesterday's digest contained a message with code that ended with hundreds
->of " "s which, when converted to my Palm, turned it into a 1770 page
->document that ultimately repeated the first six messages to infinity and
->beyond and truncated the rest of the digest.
->I, for one, would appreciate it. Thanks!
->"Smokey" Brandon, who was happy to pick up Charlaine Harris' LIVING DEAD
->IN DALLAS last night at Auntie's, but is unhappy about the store's
->recently combining used books with new ones
Robert Rosenwald
Publisher & President
Poisoned Pen Press--Publishing Excellence in Mystery
6962 E. 1st Ave. #103, Scottsdale, AZ 85251
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www.poisonedpenpress.com
800-421-3976
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Best regards,
Shauna mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
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