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Re: Tree Tubes

At 09:38 PM 6/07/97 -0400, Harry Dewey wrote:
>Something very strange is going on.  I wrote and sent to Medit-Plants
>this morning a message asking about tree tubes (they were mentioned in 
>yesterday's Medit-Plants Digest).
>
>Tonight I find two messages (from Bobby Ward and Mark Speakman, both 
>reproduced below) telling me my message was BLANK, but I find another 
>private message from Sue Templeton answering the question.  I did not 
>write Sue privately.
>
>So why did one person on Medit-Plants get my message while two other 
>people got a blank message?
>
Well Harry, I'm no expert, but I think there are two different mail formats
used around the world, and some mail programs cannot cope with one or the
other, whilst others can handle both. When I got your original message, it
was prefaced with the following text (presumably put on by the little gnome
who works in the e-mail sorting office):

  This message is in MIME format.  The first part should be readable text,

  while the remaining parts are likely unreadable without MIME-aware tools.

  Send mail to mime@docserver.cac.washington.edu for more info.

I am currently using Eudora Lite, which seems to have no problems with mail
whatever it has been sent from. Hope this helps. If only someone in the
computer industry could come up with ONE standard for something. Let's be
thankful that there is only one standard for plant names, even if some of
those standard names keep changing!
Tim Dutton		timdut@freemail.co.nz
"Raindrops", Main Road North, Kaitoke, Upper Hutt, New Zealand
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