Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2021 08:40:59 -0700
Reply-To: Dan N <dn92610@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Dan N <dn92610@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: Unreadable posts (was also: Vanagon List Archives: A
Technical Problem)
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I agree with John... I open Dennis' messages in the archives and YES they
are undecoded (unreadable)
Also.. I notice that Dennis uses Hotmail.com and no one else... Could it be
this is the issue from Hotmail?
I wish I could find some with Hotmail.com to try .. but I didn't find.
I remember Outlook.com replaced Hotmail.com a few years ago...
On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 8:32 AM John Thiessen <john.thiessen@gmail.com>
wrote:
> It would appear that everyone who receives their emails from The List
> in non-digest mode do not see a problem. Also, everyone who receives
> emails from The List in digest mode do have a problem, and, every
> email from Dennis that is stored in the archives is also problematic.
>
> This suggests that the encoding that Dennis' app is using to send
> emails cannot be decoded by The List server (and therefore issues and
> stores it in an un-decoded format), however everyone who receives
> those emails in non-digest mode are being decoded correctly by that
> individual's email app (and therefore do not see an issue).
>
> Please look at the archives
> (http://gerry.vanagon.com/archives/vanagon.html) and have a look at
> Dennis' emails.
>
> See the problem?
>
>
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2021 at 11:20, Dan N <dn92610@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > I am not sure the unreadable messages are from Dennis' side... the
> messages I received from him are all readable on my Mac.
> >
> > On Tue, Apr 27, 2021 at 4:44 AM John Thiessen <john.thiessen@gmail.com>
> wrote:
> >>
> >> While turning off digest mode or using https://www.base64decode.org
> >> solves the problem, perhaps the bigger issue is that all of Dennis'
> >> messages in the archive are also unreadable.
> >>
> >> Every.Single.One.Of.Them!
> >>
> >> There are one or two other members that also have the issue. Can
> >> anyone clarify for Dennis (and the few others) what settings they can
> >> change in the program/ app that they use to send messages that would
> >> solve this?
> >>
> >> John
> >>
> >> ------------------------------
> >>
> >>
> >> Hi Tom,
> >> As mark suggests.
> >>
> >> Try turning off Digest mode and enjoy the modest but useful individual
> posts.
> >>
> >> Hopefully that helps.
> >>
> >> Eric Caron
> >>
> >>
> >> > On Apr 26, 2021, at 12:55 PM, Mark McCulley <markmcculley@GMAIL.COM>
> wrote:
> >> >
> >> > Tom, you can cut and paste the lines of gibberish into the this base64
> >> > decoder to read them: https://www.base64decode.org
> >> >
> >> > Are you using digest mode (multiple messages combined into single
> email)?
> >> > If you are then try turning off digest mode.
> >> >
> >> > -Mark
> >> >
> >> > On Mon, Apr 26, 2021 at 9:22 AM Dennis Haynes <
> d23haynes57@hotmail.com>
> >> > wrote:
> >> >
> >> >> Tom,
> >> >> I really don’t know what I am doing wrong. Maybe the problem is
> due to me
> >> >> adding links as in this case. Maybe if I send to you p-mail. I
> don’t know.
> >> >>
> >> >> Dennis
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >> -----Original Message-----
> >> >> From: Tom Neal <tneal4242@gmail.com>
> >> >> Sent: Monday, April 26, 2021 10:30 AM
> >> >> To: d23haynes57@hotmail.com
> >> >> Subject: Unreadable posts
> >> >>
> >> >> Hi, Dennis.
> >> >> Most, but not all, of your posts, and your posts only, look like
> below,
> >> >> unreadable, which has not always been the case. Apple mail client,
> and
> >> >> Gmail client on iPad. No one else’s posts look like this and
> apparently
> >> >> some people can read them.
> >> >> Since I highly value your posts, any suggestions for how to read
> them?
> >> >> Regards, Tom Neal
> >> >>
> >> >>
> >> >>> On Apr 26, 2021, at 3:00 AM, Automatic digest processor <
> >> >> LISTSERV@gerry.vanagon.com> wrote:
> >> >>>
> >> >>> Date: Mon, 26 Apr 2021 03:43:09 +0000
> >> >>> From: Dennis Haynes <d23haynes57@HOTMAIL.COM>
> >> >>> Subject: Re: Help with GW links
> >> >>>
> >> >>> SGVhdnkgRHV0eSBha
> >> >>> XJmaWx0ZXIuIA0KDQpo
> >> >>> dHRwczovL3d3dy5nb3dlc3R5LmNvbS9wcm9kdWN0
> >> >>> L2ZpbHRlcnMvMzkzNC9
> >> >>> oZWF2eS1kdXR5LWFpci
> >> >>> 1maWx0ZXItP3Y9DQoN
> >> >>> Ck5vdGUgdGhpcyBhaXIg
> >> >>> ZmlsdGVyIGlzIGFsc28gdXNlZCBpbiBzb21lIGlu
> >> >>> ZHVzdHJpYWwgYWlyIGNvbXByZXNzb3JzLiBJ
> >> >> .......
> >> >>
>
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