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[at-l] nbsp, HTML show up in emails
At 12:34 PM 1/9/01 -0500, Arthur Gaudet wrote:
>Well, I guess the frustration has built up and I'll bring up this topic.
>Perhaps there is some straightforward solution that the group can arrive
>at. Or perhaps I'm the only one this is happening to and I'll shut up when
>I find out.
>
>I use Eudora,
good
> on a Mac,
baaadddd....
>a plain text email reader. Some, but not all,
>messages have "non-breaking space" characters (and other special
>characters) show up in the body of the message. Here's a recent example
>from Marty46er:
Dump the MAC. My Eudora and PC didn't do the   thing to Short Jobs post,
although I did see them in your 'copy and paste' in this e-mail.
BTW..the example from Wild Bill below.....there was no sign of html there
either. Sorry Globetrotter.....it's all the MAC's fault <g>
Warning, you have just listened to computer advice from a computer idiot.
> >........ since i plan on toting it along for a few hundered miles,
> >i'd appreciate any tips on use. like keeping dry in rain and
> >snow - after it's set up. how fierce does the wind have to
> >blow to drive rain in under the trap? should i think of
> >something to hang in the eaves? .........
>
>It might be a matter of just having everyone agree to certain settings for
>the email that they send out. Hopefully someone more knowledgeable than me
>can help illuminate the problem here. (Get the candle lanterns out?)
>
>On a similar topic, when I receive a digest version of at-l messages,
>occasionally a message will have HTML embedded in the message. Don't know
>if this shows up _only_ in the digest. Here's an example from Wild Bill:
>
>In a message dated 1/5/2001 1:36:37 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>cleek@csc.smsu.edu writes:
>>to participate in discussions so regularly throughout the "normal" work
>>day?
>
>
>I'm retired Army and never sleep more then 4 hours at a time.
>
>Wildbill
>Thanks much, ttfn
>
>Arthur D. Gaudet "Is walking down called hiking, too?"
>
>(RockDancer) -heard at the top of Mt Washington, NH
>
>
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