Re: Subject: Re: Making this list more readable

[Athan <netfilter@miggy.org>]

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On Thu, Jan 09, 2003 at 12:37:32PM +1300, Ian Batterbee wrote:
> I see the problem as well.. I think it's caused by the fact that many of 
> the individual messages in the  are content-transfer-encoding: 
> quoted-printable, but the digest has no content-transfer-encoding in the 
> header, so the quoted-printable data inside the messages included in the 
> digest is treated as plain text and incorrectly formatted.
> 
> If we know that ALL messages contained in the digest are 
> quoted-printable, then it would just be a matter of changing the 
> content-type of the digest, but I've noticed the problem doesn't occur 
> on all messages.. some are fine.. so...  I guess people's mailers are 
> simply posting as quoted-printable, and the digest process is just 
> including the message body as-is

  Having checked and found this list is run with mailman, and then
checked the options for a list I have admin access to the solution is to
just make the digests 'plain' rather than 'mime'.  I presume the former
means you get one big file in mbox style, which may cause some people
problems too I guess.  This list is mailman 2.0.11, the one I checked is
2.0.12, so there's not going to be any extra options in this list's
config for it.

  Of course you could just read it in normal mode rather than digest ;).

-Ath
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