Re: [MV] All Greek To Me - Adrift in a Digital Sea

From: Michael Stallwood (tankcity@globalnet.co.uk)
Date: Thu Oct 05 2000 - 17:27:29 PDT


Still confused. I have my ie5 e mailer set up to send all messages in rich
text and send e mails to the rest of the world normally in Tahoma 14pt but
in any of Microsoft's fancy Office 2000 scripts that take my fancy according
to the subject of the letter. If I try to do that on Mil Veh, i immediately
receive a 'bounce' message telling me the list only accepts messages in
plain text. Arthur has clearly and wisely configured his server to handle
only plain text messages because they generate the quickest downloads.
Unless the Russians are reading my mail and then wrongly re encrypting it
when sending it on, Bryan knows something which I don't. What we need here
is the Jim Gilmore of the digital world to quote chapter and verse from some
obscure computer manual. Do they have Ord-9s for those????

Mike S.
----- Original Message -----
From: Richard Notton <Richard@fv623.demon.co.uk>
To: Military Vehicles Mailing List <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
Sent: 05 October 2000 17:41
Subject: Re: [MV] All Greek To Me

>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Michael Stallwood" <tankcity@globalnet.co.uk>
> To: "Military Vehicles Mailing List" <mil-veh@mil-veh.org>
> Sent: Thursday, October 05, 2000 1:31 AM
> Subject: [MV] All Greek To Me
>
>
> > Am I the only one who receives Bryan Rupp's messages in some weird
> > Greek/Russian/Cyrillic font? Do the rest of you communicate in some
> secret
> > language which us mere mortals are not privy to? Is Bryan Rupp
wondering
> > why he never gets a reply? We should be told.
> >
> I had that problem too with many messages that were sent in a user defined
> character set whereas the standard norm seems to be ISO-8859-1 as you can
> see from the message properties. OE5 seems to handle it but displays in a
> large and strange font.
>
> It is a fact though that people choosing to send in non-standard format
> should realise that the text may not be readable to all.
>
> Richard
> Southampton - England
>
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