This message is to ghamburg, but as others are also frustrated with the problem, I thought I'd post this somewhat explanatory post as well as send it in pmail. M. GHamburg: I dunno if you are aware of this, but you are sending your mail as a MIME package that contains two versions, an html version and a plain-text version. This is not a standard way to send mail, but Netscape (which I assume you're using) decided it would be really cool. And I suppose it is, if you read mail in Netscape or some other html browser. I don't. It would be awfully nice if you'd change the settings in your browser so it sends mail the normal way. In the meantime your messages go unread because the screen that comes up (see below) just tells me that I have a bunch of MIME stuff and do I want to fire up a MIME reader to look at it and who has time for that on the vanagon list??? Thanks mon! Gary On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, ghamburg wrote: >Parts/attachments: > 1 OK ~6 lines Text (charset: ISO-8859-1) > 2 ~23 lines Text (charset: ISO-8859-1) >---------------------------------------- > > > [Part 1, Text/PLAIN (charset: ISO-8859-1 "Latin 1") 6 lines] > [Not Shown. Use the "V" command to view or save this part] > > > [Part 2, Text/HTML (charset: ISO-8859-1 "Latin 1") 23 lines] > [Cannot display this part. Press "V" then "S" to save in a file] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Gary Shea shea@xmission.com Salt Lake City http://www.xmission.com/~shea |
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