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Date: | Tue, 14 May 2002 11:47:25 -0500 |
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Hi guys, especially Ben Parker (I think),
I temporarily suspended my email from this list a few weeks ago, and I
think I may have missed something important. However I searched the
archives and I think I MAY have picked up a clue to what's going on with my
new bottom banner. Here's my current situation:
My new bottom banner is appearing on less than half of all the posts to the
Stutt-L list at Temple. 41 out of 93 posts since May 4th, DO have
it. That's only 44%. The remain 56% do NOT have the banner at all. <sad
face>
The bottom banner was installed on May 4th. I used the web interface to
install it (exactly as I had done on a test list that Stan Horwitz had set
up for me). I have never had trouble with the web interface. But just to
satisfy myself I did a ...
GET STUTT-L.mailtpl
via email on the Temple server and got back ...
>>> BOTTOM_BANNER Bottom Banner for list postings
.FO OFF
** Sign off: mailto:[log in to unmask]
** Archives and settings:
http://listserv.temple.edu/archives/stutt-l.html
** FAQs and Help: http://www.mankato.msus.edu/~stutter/stuttlfaq.html
.FO ON
which all looks normal to me. (I'm a little surprised that I didn't get
EVERYTHING back like the default.mailtpl with the BOTTOM_BANNER section
modified, but I didn't. I just assume this is normal.)
Then I announced the new bottom banner by posting to the list - and the
bottom banner WASN'T there! <red face!> Then I sent out a second
announcement apologizing for the absence of the banner - and there it
WAS! <double red face!> Figuring that computers are truly the tools of
the devil, I stopped posting entirely and simply watched other posts appear
and sure enough about half of them have the bottom banner and half do
not. 'Tis a puzzlement...
I thought that maybe the list at Temple was being run on two separate
mirrored servers, one which contained the new bottom banner and one which
never got the update. I know mirrored servers are not SUPPOSED to get out
of sync like that, but the devil can make strange things happen.
After much delay and confusion I read a post from Ben Parker on 4/19
(BEFORE my problem) which said in part...
>there is a long known issue of banners seeming to disappear when MIME messages
>are sent. Due to the technical nature if how MIME messages are formed the
>banners are added outside of the MIME boundary areas and thus cannot be seen
>in most mail clients. This problem has been corrected in the forthcoming 1.8e
>release of LISTSERV. In fact, separate banners can be defined for plain-text
>and HTML messages.
That adds even more mud to the waters. Say what? MIME messages? Am I
supposed to understand what a MIME message is? And what to do when I get
(or send) one? I'm a newbie to this kind of stuff. Is that an answer to a
different problem than I have? Help!
If it matters, my mail client is Eudora 5.1, running on Windows 98, 750 Mhz
processor, 256 meg RAM. Apple pie normal I'd guess.
I await your words of wisdom...
Thanks,
Russ
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Dallas, Texas
972-881-1451 home, 972-489-6169 cell
my home page: http://www.RussHicks.com
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