At 06:39 PM 3/30/96 -0800, you wrote: >A subscriber wrote: > >For your information, several of the transmissions have resulted in portions >of the file being transmitted in what appears to be a code form, just a >series of letters and no spaces and without apparent meaning. That happened >in the particular issue I chose to respond to you about, 28 Mar to 29 Mar of >the digest. > > >What do digests do with the encoded posts, mime, ... ? What is >this subscriber receiving? > > > >~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > Sylvia Caras, owner, MADNESS >an online list managed by [log in to unmask] > > "Nothing about me, without me." > >[log in to unmask] v/f:408 426 5335 >%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% > MS Exchange and MS Mail, in MS's eternal wisdom, have automatically enabled embedded formatting. This allows users to email each other with underlining, fonts, bold, italics, etc. It does this with a formatting code section at the end, which shows up as nasty codey stuff at the end. Of course, Exchange/Mail users don't realize this is happening, and no one else knows where the codey stuff is coming from. Stupid MS. :P Philo [log in to unmask]