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Gabe Goldberg <[log in to unmask]>
Tue, 6 May 2003 18:23:30 -0400
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William Schults <[log in to unmask]>

> It seemed to work OK for a couple of days. My multipart user is posting
> away and ListServ is stripping him down to plain text. My "enriched
> text" posters were getting messages through as well, also stripped to
> plain text. This had the added advantage of fixing a problem I was
> having with ListServ refusing to attach the Bottom Banner to anything
> but plain text postings (since now they're all converted to plain text,
> no problem).

> Then yesterday (about 4 days into the experiment), I got questions from
> 2 different "enriched text" users about messages that were rejected
> because:

Check whether the difference is whether they're replying to a note or
starting a new thread. Email clients sometimes reply in the same format as
a note being answered (e.g., plain text) but compose new notes in a
different default format -- e.g., HTML/RTF.

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Gabriel Goldberg, Computers and Publishing, Inc.          (703) 941-1657
6580 Bermuda Green Court, Alexandria, VA 22312-3103    [log in to unmask]
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