Garbled messages

[Joel S. Berson]

The reason I experimented was that John's message did not, I think,
say explicitly that he had tried test messages *in plain text*, only
that he had tried messages in rich text with and without URLs.

I note that it's not merely the presence of HTML that bothers my
email program (Eudora).  It presents styled messages clearly.  (Test:
sending one to myself.)  Rather, it seems to be the base-64 encoding
that Eudora does not decode.  However, styled messages will (I think)
be difficult to read in a digest.

Joel

At 1/15/2006 08:05 PM, you wrote:
> > I think URL's come through fine in plain text, and don't need any
> > styling (HTML or whatever) or encoding.
>
>No difference of opinion; I agree. The reason I mentioned URLs was that
>Ben Zimmer had written:
>
><<If the "rich-text" option is set (in Gmail at
>least-- I assume AOL works similarly), then the post may end up
>garbled. It won't *always* be garbled, though-- I believe a URL has to
>be in the body of the text for HTML coding to get triggered by Gmail
>or AOL.>>
>
>and so I experimented with messages that did and didn't include a URL.
>Most if not all modern e-mail programs recognize URLs in plain text
>messages and turn them into links which will open with a browser.
>
>John

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