mangled messages

Randy Alexander strangeguitars at GMAIL.COM
Mon Feb 9 17:19:23 UTC 2009


There's also the problem with "=20" etc being scattered throughout
Ron's messages.  It's quite hard on the eyes, but of course it's not
as bad as "....BhYm91dCB0aGUg....".  I think anyone who sends a
message that's not plain text comes out completely garbled.  Am I
right about that?

Randy

On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 12:59 AM, Arnold Zwicky <zwicky at stanford.edu> wrote:
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> On Feb 9, 2009, at 8:43 AM, Mark Mandel wrote:
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>> ... 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).
>
> i had the same problem you did (and just on this one posting of
> Ron's).  presumably he inadvertently sent it in a format other than
> plain text.
>
> arnold
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