Date:         Tue, 27 Apr 2021 10:07:29 -0700
Reply-To:     Dan N <dn92610@GMAIL.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Dan N <dn92610@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Re: Unreadable posts (was also: Vanagon List Archives: A
              TechnicalProblem)
Comments: To: John Thiessen <john.thiessen@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To:  <CABqLj+hwdBeZLc=hHEQ=57C5xsEsX7aV-1TjiuxsWguEv6w9YQ@mail.gmail.com>
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here is the archived message from Dennis - June 2919 to April 2021

http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?S2=vanagon&L=vanagon&q=&s=&f=hotmail.com&a=June+2019&b=April+2021

On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 10:00 AM John Thiessen <john.thiessen@gmail.com>
wrote:

> And here is an example of what it looks like in the archives:
> http://gerry.vanagon.com/cgi-bin/wa.exe?A2=ind2104d&L=vanagon&F=&S=&P=4998
>
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 12:58, John Thiessen <john.thiessen@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > That's correct. All modern (current) email clients decode them on the
> > fly and you never even know it.
> >
> > This issue exists because the server that archives the emails cannot
> > decode Base64. This means you will never be able to search/ read the
> > emails encoded with Base64 (such as Dennis' .. a real shame).
> > Additionally, when the server accumulates a handful of emails and then
> > issues them in digest mode, you will not be able to read those Base64
> > emails (unless you manually decode each one of them)
> >
> > On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 12:49, Roy Nicholl <RNicholl@nbnet.nb.ca> wrote:
> > >
> > > I just had a look at the raw version of several of Dennis' posts (in
> elm, pine and Apple Mail) and all the ones I examined are base64 encoded
> which is pretty standard.
> > >
> > >
> > > John Thiessen wrote on 2021.04.27 13:33:
> > >
> > > So we are getting somewhere ..  There was no problem in the past.
> > > There now is a problem; certainly for some months now.
> > >
> > > The issue may be with a setting in Dennis' Hotmail account, OR, it
> > > could be a setting in the email client that Dennis uses to send
> > > emails.
> > >
> > > Note that there are other members where from time to time their emails
> > > are also unreadable.
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > > On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 12:16, Dan N <dn92610@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > something must have happened on the List server related to Dennis'
> email address recently...
> > >
> > > here are one from him long ago (April/2017) and one from another
> person, both using Hotmail.com
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > >
>