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On: Tue, May 27, 2003 at 02:34:13AM -0400,Stan V. Smith Wrote:
} We are relatively new to listserv
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} I and several of my subscribers have a setting to Digest - traditional.
} Downloaded and retrieved in word, there are many embedded codes and whole sections
} that are wall to wall random characters. A sample is copied below.
}
} Do any of you have a recommendation as to how to get a Digest that is fairly
} clean?
The sample you have shown is in HTML which has never been known as being
particularly readable by humans. You basically have 2 options:
1) Require list postings to be in plain text. Just about all mailers
have an option to send plain text, not all of them are easy to set that
way.
2) Instruct your users to copy/paste or otherwise edit each post from
the <HTML> to the </HTML> into a seperate ascii text file and save it
with an ".htm" or ".html" extension, then open the file in a browser
which speaks html.
Neither of these will work well for the typical computer illiterate
user.
Other possibilities would be to tell them, "Don't use digest". You
could have them try INDEX HTML instead of digest. This will give a list
of posts and a link to ckick on to get the full post. Caveat: I don't
know if this will expand the HTML.
When you say that you see "wall to wall random characters",
do they look something like:
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-ID: <93A64357-599B-4B4E-890C-6E73481E760F>
R0lGODlhFAAPALMIAP9gAM9gAM8vAM9gL/+QL5AvAGAvAP9gL////wAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
AAAAACH/C05FVFNDQVBFMi4wAwEAAAAh+QQJFAAIACwAAAAAFAAPAAAEVRDJSaudJuudrxlEKI6B
URlCUYyjKpgYAKSgOBSCDEuGDKgrAtC3Q/R+hkPJEDgYCjpKr5A8WK9OaPFZwHoPqm3366VKyeRt
etc etc
If so, there are attachments. Could be pictures or other binary files
such as word documents. Again, the computer knowledgeable can pull
these out, and Winzip (and probably other programs) can decode them back
to the original. Not for the novices.
} --part1_145.1231cb98.2c02820a_boundary
} Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII"
} Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
}
} <HTML><FONT FACE=3Darial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3D2 FAMILY=3D"SANSSERIF" FACE=
} =3D"Arial" LANG=3D"0">In a message dated 5/23/2003 12:43:19 PM Central Dayli=
} ght Time, [log in to unmask] writes:<BR>
} <BR>
} <BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=3DCITE style=3D"BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT=
} : 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px">sorts of over reactive laws
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