In the past, messages from my Yahoo account have been gibberised unless I remember to switch back to the old email format and choose Plain Text.
David Benson Auckland NZ http://retroride.blogspot.com
________________________________ From: alex wetmore <alex@phred.org> To: Dale Brown <oroboyz@aol.com> Cc: "gillies@ece.ubc.ca" <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>; "classicrendezvous@bikelist.org" <classicrendezvous@bikelist.org> Sent: Thursday, 23 April, 2009 1:11:34 PM Subject: Re: [CR] Was: DO NOT post Base64 messages... Now: CR gibberish....
I noticed that this isn't happening for the BOB list, at least for the 100 messages that I've checked. I just changed the configuration for CR to be identical. We'll see if that fixes it.
alex
On Wed, 22 Apr 2009, Dale Brown wrote:
> << Please have some sympathies for people who read the mailing list at http://www.bikelist.org and for those who search the archive to answer age-old questions, to avoid bothering the CR population.>>
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> Don:
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> I have recently received quite a few complaints about my messages (and apparently other?) arriving as undecipherable gibberish. I suppose that is what you are referring to... The unfortunate problem with that idea is the fact that I have beensending mail to the CR list in exactly the same way for all these years!
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> Now I suppose some changes could be taking place with email services that are unbeknown to the user but... ? I certainly haven't opted for Base64 or anything else.
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> Our generous host has been asked if he knows the root problem but I think he is similarly befuddled. We shall see how it all shakes out....
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> Dale
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> Dale Brown
> Greensboro, North Carolina USA
> http://www.classicrendezvous.com
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: donald gillies <gillies@ece.ubc.ca>
> To: classicrendezvous@bikelist.org
> Cc: com@ece.ubc.ca; hilarystone@blueyonder.co.uk; alex@phred.org; joeb-z@comcast.net; oroboyz@ece.ubc.ca
> Sent: Wed, 22 Apr 2009 4:46 pm
> Subject: [CR] Please DO NOT post Base64 messages
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> Dear Folks,
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> a number of people have recently been posting messages to the CR
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> mailing list using base64 encoding:
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> http://www.hcidata.info/
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> I think this might be a case of some mail readers getting clever with
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> special control characters outside the 7-bit characters that are
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> typically carried in SMTP mail, or it might be some sort of a
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> preferences issue in mailer setup.
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> Messages posted in base64 are very difficult to view in the archives.
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> You basically have to cut and paste them into a converter like the one
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> at the URL listed above. I have the impression that most people read
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> the archives for "today" (like I do) at http://www.bikelist.org because there
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> is so much traffic on the list. If you do this then none of these
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> base64 messages appear in english.
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> Messages posted in base64 can never be found in a search of the archive.
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> The contents of these messages are lost forever to the search engine,
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> and they are just wasting space on the disk at http://www.bikelist.org.
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> Please make efforts to have your messages posted in cleartext. Please
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> avoid characters outside 7-bit ascii (i.e. avoid special symbol
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> charaters such as the pound character or accented characters.) Please
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> have some sympathies for people who read the mailing list at
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> http://www.bikelist.org and for those who search the archive to answer
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> age-old questions, to avoid bothering the CR population.
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> Thank you,
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> - Don Gillies
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> San Diego, CA, uSA
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