Re: Subject: Re: Making this list more readable

[Tommy McNeely <Tommy.McNeely@Sun.COM>]

All those Mic*ft mailers that send that html email :p maybe the listserv 
could reject it :) or at the very least, select the ascii attachment (that 
usually comes along with it)..



--On Thursday, January 09, 2003 12:37:32 PM +1300 Ian Batterbee 
<ian.batterbee@aut.ac.nz> wrote:

>>
>>
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
>> Content-Disposition: inline
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>>
>> On Wed, Jan 08, 2003 at 08:59:16AM -0800, Carol Anne Ogdin wrote:
>>
>>
>>>>    Is there any way to change the listserv so it doesn't convert
>>>>    control characters (e.g., tabs, quotes and spaces at ends of lines)
>>>>    to '=3Dxx' form of hex characters.  It's hard to read.  (I read the
>>>>    digest, so perhaps the problem lies there, and not in the main
>>>>    listserv?) Does your listserv software have a conversion table you
>>>>    can set that will make things more readable?
>>>
>>>
>>
>>  I don't see this, and I'm getting the list direct.  The =3DXX thing is
>> "Quoted Printable" encoding.  Probably an option on the listserv to turn
>> it on/off for the digest.
>>
> 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
>
>
>
>



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