Date: Sat, 6 Jan 2018 11:31:45 -0800
Reply-To: Jim Arnott <jr.arnott@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Jim Arnott <jr.arnott@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Gerry List
In-Reply-To: <CAKbau53vuR7+aOf5wjELHE1kVs06MN1kBZ5QEskz-+DNkBSRfg@mail.gmail.com>
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Note that the listserv software that runs the list is nearly 20 years old. I’ve not been able to find any switch to enable base64 decoding for the digests or archives. If anyone wants to pore over the documentation and discover such thing, I think everyone would be grateful.
http://www.lsoft.com/manuals/1.8d/index.html
We are running the level set release v1.8d 2000b
Googling about a bit finds threads for versions as late as listserv16 with similar problems.
Jim
> On Jan 4, 2018, at 6:22 AM, Mark McCulley <mark.mcculley@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>
> Dennis's emails are base64 encoded. base64 encoding is typically used to
> encode binary information (like images) into ASCII text format. You can
> decode the 'gibberish' by cutting and pasting it to this site: https://www.
> base64decode.org
>
> The software that creates the digests should decode base64-encoded emails
> into readable text but the vanagon listserv is not doing this. There may be
> a setting on the listserv software that an admin could change to make this
> work correctly.
>
> Dennis, this support article might be help you change your Outlook email
> client to not use base64 encoding:
> https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/278134/how-outlook-applies-encoding-to-plain-text-e-mail-messages
>
> -Mark
>
>
>
>
> On Wed, Jan 3, 2018 at 8:05 PM, Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@hotmail.com>
> wrote:
>
>> Paul,
>> I do not know why this happens. I use multiple computers, windows 10
>> phone, outlook, windows mail, and sometimes a web browser for my responses.
>> I am at a loss as to what I should be doing differently that won't affect
>> other work I do.
>>
>> List experts?
>>
>> Dennis
>>
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: paul guard [mailto:gears@prodigy.net]
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 2, 2018 3:48 PM
>> To: d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM
>> Subject: Gerry List
>>
>> Hi Dennis
>>
>> I must admit to being computer illiterate .. but the Gerry Vanagon list
>> has to be the most exasperating mailing list I've every experienced.
>>
>> I am unable to read ANY of your posts (that arrive in daily digest) ..
>> they come across as gibberish. It's a shame, as I'm sure you post a lot of
>> great stuff worthy of reading.
>>
>> .. and I'm unable to visit the site to read posts directly off the site,
>> which would probably read in actual printed english.
>>
>> Any attempts to sign-up again leave me on some other Vanagon site,
>> apparently NOT the Gerry site.
>>
>> Any tips you might be able to provide would be appreciated. Or .. is
>> there any way you could begin posting in plain text? I'm pretty sure I'm
>> not the only one with this problem.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Paul Guard
>> gears@prodigy.net
>>
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