Cohousing-L Mailing List: keep it tidy! and watch out for the list gremlins

[C2pattee (C2pattee]

At the risk of cluttering up the system again, I'm replying to this post, and 
including the entire preceeding post, as an experiment.  I've noticed that 
sometimes it's MY posts that come through as gibberish (and a damned nuisance 
it is, whether my gibberish or somebody else's).  I have no idea why it's 
happening, and was about to send a private post to Fred, the List master, to 
see if he had any ideas.

The only possibility I can think of is that sometimes, when I want to let 
software put in the capitals that I'm too lazy to do, I'll type my message in 
a Word.rtf (rich text format) and then copy it into my regular AOHell reply 
box.  I use .rtf because in the past when I've used the Word.doc mode, the 
formatting gets transferred to the outgoing message, and puts things like =20 
where originally there was a naturally occurring line break.  I never use 
MIME format, and my preferences are set for text rather that HTML format for 
outgoing messages.

The experiment is that I typed this message (caps and all-the lengths i go to 
for this list :) ).  I'm on digest, so I'll have to wait till tomorrow to see 
what comes back.  In the mean time, if anybody has any other ideas of how to 
correct the problem, it probably would be helpful to share them with the 
whole list.

  Christine Pattee
Greater Hartford CT Cohousing
c2pattee [at] aol.com

In a message dated 7/19/01 1:01:22 PM Eastern Daylight Time, 
cohousing-l-request [at] cohousing.org writes:


> Message: 1
> Date: Thu, 19 Jul 01 09:20:14 -0800
> From: Lynn Nadeau <welcome [at] olympus.net>
> To: "cohousing L" <cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org>
> Subject: [C-L]_keep it tidy!
> Reply-To: cohousing-l [at] cohousing.org
>
> I know this has been posted before, but it's getting routinely ignored. 
>
> ONLY quote what is needed of the post you are responding to. Many lately 
> have included not only the *whole post, but the whole thread that 
> preceded it. 
>
> Avoid MIME format, since that then prints out in unintelligible gibberish 
> after the ordinary message, on a system like mine, which isn't all that 
> old. 
>
> The way things are posting lately, a four-line post may take up three 
> computer screens, with the prior quotes, then the MIME code. For those of 
> us who receive Digest Mode, this may mean that a 5-item digest goes on 
> nearly forever. 
>
> Thanks, 
>
> Lynn Nadeau