On Tue, 6 Aug 1996 08:32:35 -0600, John Chadwick wrote:
>A subscriber got a digest that was garbled
>the original was fine.
>
>The subscriber used dialup Eudora to get the message from a mail server, so it
>could just be line noise on the modem
 
Ask the subscriber if his/her commware is configured for "hardware
handshaking" (CTS/RTS) and to check with the postmaster for the mail server
that the modems on the server end are correctly configured as well.  Nearly
all modern modems do error checking; hence the primary source of garble of
this kind is buffer overflow.  Recent computers are plenty fast enough to
sustain 28.8 kbps transfers, but multitasking can occasionally delay
reading the comm buffer and produce the type of garble described.
 
 
-Murph