[Ads-l] Trying Again

[Geoffrey Nathan]

Messages come through looking like this, on a random basis:

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Sender:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0  American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Poster:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0  Margaret Winters <mewinters at WAYNE.EDU>
Subject:=A0=A0=A0=A0=A0  Trying Again
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Bill Mullins messages always look like this. Sometimes Margaret's and mine do, but other times they don't. I'd love to know what settings will reliably produce plain text, and also not replace some characters with decoded  versions:

FWIW, I just tried checked =E2=80=9Cten-year anniversary=E2=80=9D vs. =
=E2=80=9Ctenth-year anniversary=E2=80=9D.  The former has 440 actual =
G-hits, the latter 190. =20

This was from Larry, but others' messages also have this embedded character deconstruction.



Geoffrey S. Nathan
WSU Information Privacy Officer (Retired)
Emeritus Professor, Linguistics Program
http://blogs.wayne.edu/proftech/

geoffnathan at wayne.edu

Nobody at Wayne State will EVER ask you for your password. Never send it to anyone in an email, no matter how authentic the email  looks.
  



From: American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU> on behalf of Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM>
Sent: Monday, March 26, 2018 9:29 AM
To: ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU
Subject: Re: Trying Again
  

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Sender:       American Dialect Society <ADS-L at LISTSERV.UGA.EDU>
Poster:       Jesse Sheidlower <jester at PANIX.COM>
Subject:      Re: Trying Again
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What behavior are you seeing here? Margaret's initial message came through fine for me on three different mail programs in two different operating systems, and it's fine in the archives:

http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2018-March/151387.html

Is this an issue with your own settings?

Jesse Sheidlower

On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 01:13:15PM +0000, Geoffrey Nathan wrote:
> Does anyone know why this happens? It seems to be random. Margaret sent this as plain text and the listserv software garbled it anyway. But it doesn't happen all the time for her (although for some others on the list it always happens. Surely there's a way  to get plain text delivered to a listserv without being re-encoded as random characters.
> 
> Geoff

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