Re: Attatchments

> I am not receiving Ginny's posts as attatchments.  How weird!  Does it depend 
> on how we recieve our email? I use AOL and I see that Connie uses USWEST.NET. 

There's something very strange about the way that her copy of Outlook
Express 5.0 is encoding MIME attachments.  It's not Ginny's fault, but
more likely something that the idiots in Redmond came up with (probably
in an attempt to override the standards *again*). 

I'm not sure what the second part of the message was supposed to
contain -- all I can get is a string of characters like

   =>< = =><><><><

But since the Content-Type is set to text/html, those characters are
interpreted as HTML code and mess up everything else.

Your mail reader should have picked up the first part of the message,
and I'm not sure why it didn't.  It may have been the footer appended
to each message on the list.

Ultimately, it doesn't really matter.  According to the list instructions,
attachments aren't supposed to be sent out to the list anyway.  :)
The problem is that it messes up everything for people in the digest
mode, and a lot of people don't have email that handles attachments
(I don't, because sometimes I'm reading my mail through an old ASCII
terminal depending on where I'm at).

> When I pulled up Connies' post to forward, there was an attatchments box in 
> lower left hand corner.

I'm not sure how AOL's mailers handle things, so I can't comment on 
that.  I do know that Connie's post was attachment-free.

We should probably be talking about perennials instead, anyhow.  Bloodroot
is finished here, Dutchman's breeches are up, candytuft is blooming, prairie
smoke is just about ready to burst, and the koreanspice viburnum is just
starting to open the flowerbuds.  How exciting!

Chris

---------------------------------------------------------------------
To sign-off this list, send email to majordomo@mallorn.com with the
message text UNSUBSCRIBE PERENNIALS
Other Mailing lists | Author Index | Date Index | Subject Index | Thread Index