mangled messages

[Barbara Need]

I also had troubles. I read my mail using Mac Mail. Now mine also goes
through Gmail--so that might be part of the problem.

I have not seen any other (identifiable) responses to Ron's message--
sometimes if they go through another system what is garbage when it
comes to me directly is OK (or better)   when I get it second (or
third) hand.

Barbara

Barbara Need
Chicago

On 9 Feb 2009, at 10:43 AM, Mark Mandel wrote:

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> Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
> Poster:       Mark Mandel <thnidu at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject:      mangled messages
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>
> I saw in my mailbox:
>
>>>>
> from    RonButters at aol.com
> reply-to    American Dialect Society <ADS-L at listserv.uga.edu>
> to    ADS-L at listserv.uga.edu
> date    Sun, Feb 8, 2009 at 8:42 PM
> subject    Re:       Re: [ADS-L] last laugh on awe-dropping
> mailed-by    listserv.uga.edu
>
> SGFzIHRoaXMgZ3V5IGxlYXJuZWQgTk9USElORyBhYm91dCB0aGUgc3RhcmRhcmQgcGhvbm9s
> [...]
> <<<
>
> I asked,
>
>> Want to try that one again, Ron?
>
> Ron answered:
>
>> Something must be wrong with your computer.
>
> Maybe so. I'm using Gmail in Firefox 3.0.6 with WinXP Pro, SP3.
>
> But I'm not having this problem with other posts, and we know that our
> listserver is relatively intolerant. E.g., I have to remember to
> post here
> in "plain text" or risk my message's being mangled as above,
> although no
> other list that I'm on (American Name Society comes to mind) has/
> causes such
> problems.
>
> So: was it just me, or did anyone else have trouble reading that
> post of
> Ron's? (Sun, 8:42 pm, Re:       Re: [ADS-L] last laugh on awe-
> dropping).
>
> Mark Mandel
>
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