Plain-text only Please!

Rich Faust faustrj at taii.net
Tue Apr 8 20:30:37 GMT 2003


This is a test.  Please ignore.

John E. Malmberg wrote:
> "Bernard Giroud" <bernard.giroud at creditlyonnais.ch> wrote:
> 
> <Disclaimer snipped>
> 
>>
>> --{36417CF2-F56C-41EE-831A-C0A5DB233CCD}
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
>>
>> U2VlbXMgbGlrZSBpdCB0cmVhdHMgdGhlIHdob2xlIGJlYXN0IGxpa2UgYSBmaWxlIG5hbWU6IHdo 
>>
> 
> 
> Please set your mailer to plain text.
> 
> BASE-64 shows up as a hex dump in the Digest mode, and is not readable 
> on many e-mail programs.
> 
> There is supposed to be a filter on the samba mailing lists that removes 
> all base64 and other non-plain text content, but apparently it is not 
> working completely.
> 
> Plain-text is the only mail setting that will work with all e-mail 
> systems, mailing lists and news groups.
> 
> Also replies and forwards should be in-line, not as attachments, or the 
> mailing list is supposed to remove them.
> 
> -John
> wb8tyw at qsl.network
> Personal Opinion Only
> 
> PLEASE READ THIS IMPORTANT ETIQUETTE MESSAGE BEFORE POSTING:
> 
> http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
> 




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