Re: Letter from Da Mayor

From: Kirk Lindstrom (Kirk_69@ix.netcom.com-DeleteThis)
Date: Thu Mar 30 2000 - 08:45:51 PST 

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Booker Bense wrote:

> On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, Kirk Lindstrom wrote:
>
> > JR and Others.
> > Ken's server seems to take some of our replies and make them unreadable.
> > I have found that I can usually read the blank messages by
> > "Viewing Source" (Click View, then Source in your browser)
>
> - Don't send anything but plaintext if you want people to read your
> messages. The message in question was posted in MIME format, the
> people that couldn't read it likely either don't have a MIME capable
> mail client or don't have the correct setup to parse it.
>
> The listserver won't do anything to the content of the message,
> unless you send 8bit text, then all bets are off. Of course there's
> no telling what the downstream systems do, many sites will strip
> MIME encoded messages to avoid virus problems.

I think the problem is when netscape emailers reply to messages that come from
others, it sends back the same...

> - Booker C. Bense
>
> P.S. 3 ads in a 20 line sig? Is that really the image you want to give
> people of yourself?

Thanks. I used to edit those down to one and then got lazy then forgot all
about it.

Image? This is a guy how pees in his wetsuit and wades thru the mud to
windsurf....think I care about image? 8) 

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