I've previously mentioned a neat service called Mail Archive (MA) which archives all of our TIPS posts (but see below). Mostly, I've called attention to it to warn people that MA is Google-accessible, which makes our posts public.
But I like the service. This is because our own TIPS archive doesn't work very well, and also because the fact that our posts are retrievable through Google gives us a far wider audience. Recently, I noticed that two of my posts appeared on MA but only with their headers, not the body of the message [ITSACORR and Psychological torture--who's your daddy?]. I was disappointed because I particularly wanted these two to be more widely available; in fact, that was why I had posted the ITSACORR one. What was going on? Was someone censoring my innocuous mail? I wrote MA, and I received a gratifyingly prompt reply. They said they were going to work on it, but that the likely source was sending in HTML. The only problem was that I wasn't sending in HTML. I then checked our own TIPS archive. I noticed that both of my censored messages in the MA archive displayed the text normally in the TIPS archive, but in each case, was followed by a version of the message with HTML tags. I don't think any of us see this stuff when it's posted in TIPS; it's only visibile in the TIPS archive. Only a few of my messages have the HTML junk. I suspect I sent those messages from home, and possibly I had something turned on which generated the HTML code as an alternate version (I've now tried to turn everything off which even hints at HTML). Here's where TIPSters come in. I've noticed that quite a few other people also have the additional version of their messages with HTML tags displayed in the TIPS archive. A small sampling of recent messages with: Tom Harlow, Robert Wildblood, Linda Woolf, Michael Scoles, Tim Shearon, and Nancy Melluci. But curiously, not all of these messages get censored as mine did in MA. Some got through no problem, one (Linda Woolf on "Diploma mills") isn't there at all, and one (Michael Scoles on "This guy never fails to amuse") appears with header only, as did mine. No, no, problem appears even more confusing than that. I count six posts on "Diploma mills". Yet only Annette Taylor's makes it into MA, and most of the others don't have HTML tags in their message. So I don't know what the heck is going on. Perhaps MA support can figure it out. In the meantime, though, people who are unwittingly generating those HTML tags might want to try turning them off. Do I recall that someone complained that they display in the digest version? Even if they don't, and even if they're not responsible for interfering with archiving in MA, they still junk up the TIPS archive. TIPS in Mail Archive at http://www.mail-archive.com/tips%40acsun.frostburg.edu/ TIPS archive at http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?visit=tips&id=295433587 Stephen (hope the HTML tags are off for me, this time) ----------------------------------------------------------------- Stephen L. Black, Ph.D. Department of Psychology Bishop's University e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Lennoxville, QC J1M 1Z7 Canada Dept web page at http://www.ubishops.ca/ccc/div/soc/psy TIPS discussion list for psychology teachers at http://faculty.frostburg.edu/psyc/southerly/tips/index.htm ----------------------------------------------------------------------- --- You are currently subscribed to tips as: [email protected] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
