mangled messages

[Baker, John]

        Until there is a more comprehensive fix, I think we need some
kind of easily-accessible FAQ on this.  Essentially, when a post
contains pretty much any kind of coding (and sometimes coding is
included when the poster did not even realize it - that has happened to
me), some recipients will receive emails that contain only non-English
code.  The typical reaction is that some list member will reply to the
code-only post, quoting the code and adding a comment such as "What?"
This response generally is opaque to the poster, who typically is
someone who uses an email client, such as Microsoft Outlook, that
correctly decoded the post.  Perhaps if there were a web page to which
we could point the poster, fewer explanatory emails would be required.


John Baker



-----Original Message-----
From: American Dialect Society [mailto:ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU] On Behalf
Of Jesse Sheidlower
Sent: Monday, February 09, 2009 12:48 PM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: mangled messages

On Mon, Feb 09, 2009 at 12:32:27PM -0500, Chris Waigl wrote:
>
> Ultimately, the solution of this problem would come from changing the
> configuration of the ADS-L mailing list software.

For the record, these kinds of header information are not something over
which the listowners have any control.

But I'll be contacting (again) the maintainers to see if there's
anything they can do.

Jesse Sheidlower
ADS-L

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