From: Victor Rehorst (victor_at_newtontalk.net)
Date: Thu Aug 04 2005 - 12:12:45 PDT
bill bennett wrote:
> I like to read Newtontalk when I'm at work. But to
> avoid clogging up my email inbox with messages that
> aren't directly related to my job, I read the messages
> on Yahoo! mail.
>
> It works fine most of the time, but some messages
> appear garbled. Others have odd character strings in
> them (for example =20 ). Others have lots of HTML.
>
> I "think" (but can't remember for sure) this is
> because they come from Macintoshes with non-US
> character settings. Or could they be coming from
> Newts?
>
> Either way, this isn't a problem with other mailing
> lists I subscribe to. So why is it an issue here?
Because there are bugs in common mail clients (*cough* Outlook Express) that
eCartis does not do workarounds for.
eCartis was supposed to have a brand-new whiz-bang MIME/encoding library that
was supposed to squish all of these bugs, but it has never been released...
-- Victor Rehorst - victor_at_newtontalk.net - chuma_at_chuma.org NewtonTalk list administrator - http://www.newtontalk.net Will the last person to leave the platform please turn off the backlight? -- This is the NewtonTalk list - http://www.newtontalk.net/ for all inquiries Official Newton FAQ: http://www.chuma.org/newton/faq/ WikiWikiNewt for all kinds of articles: http://tools.unna.org/wikiwikinewt/
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