Re: CZERNOWITZ-L digest 10

<x-flowed>>Elaine Kaplan wrote:
>I seem to have trouble reading some of the items on the digest.

Dear Elaine:
I asked the Cornell support person behind the listserv service about
your situation. Others have reported this as well. Here is his
response:

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What the subscriber is seeing is the actual content of the messages.
That is, if you looked at the actual content of an individual e-mail
message, rather than looking at it through the filtering effects
of your e-mail client, you would see all that stuff. That is the
way that fonts/colors/sizes/styles and attachments are encoded
in e-mail. This can be verified by saving the message to a separate
file and looking at it with a text editor (not a word processor).

The subscriber could try to use the "digest" format [as opposed to
the digest-nomime format]. For some people
that works better, but for a lot of people it works worse. [Send to
listproc_at_cornell.edu the command: set Czernowitz-L mail digest
For some, it will work better to send this command:
   set Czernowitz-L mail digest-nomime which is probably the
way Elaine has it set now.]

Alternatively, (and much preferred) everyone on the list could be
trained to use *plain* text. In addition to working better with
archives it takes up less storage space and creates less network
traffic. For example I have seen some messages (generated by Outlook)
that have the same message in the body in FIVE different formats
   plain text, richtext, HTML, RTF, WORD
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Material in [brackets] added by Bruce Reisch.

>Today's message contained one message which went on and on and on
>and on.. (snip) If you would like, I will forward it back to you
>exactly as I received it.

Please do.

>
>Thanks for listening. I really am interested in Czernovitz as I
>think this is where my grandfather was from, and I am hoping that
>someday I will be able to verify this.

I hope you will post what you know about your grandfather. Someone
on the group may be able to help you find out more.

>
>Perhaps we can meet at the conference as suggested.

I'm looking forward to that!

Bruce Reisch
Geneva, New York


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Received on 2002-06-19 08:48:31