[Ads-l] Trying Again

[Ben Zimmer]

Have you tried this trick?

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Send a message (no subject line needed) to the list PROGRAM (not the list)
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As per: http://listserv.linguistlist.org/pipermail/ads-l/2016-March/
141448.html

Jesse explained later in the thread:

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Just for reference, the default value for ADS-L was in fact FULLHDR;
DUALHDR was given as a backup possibility but it shouldn't have ever been
used. In the past, certain mail clients did want this but as the document
below states, nowadays everyone should be using FULLHDR. I did change the
default to disallow DUALHDR (though you could deliberately request it), so
any new subscription should be correct.
There's apparently no way to change this in bulk for all users. If you have
been receiving garbled messages and are having trouble setting FULLHDR,
please get in touch with me directly and I'll try to help you out.
Jesse Sheidlower  jester at panix.com
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On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 10:10 AM, Geoffrey Nathan <geoffnathan at wayne.edu>
wrote:

> 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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> 5
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> g
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> 0
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> cyBpbiBvcmRlciB0byBwdXJjaGFzZSBhIGhvbWUuIFJlYWx0b3JzIGFuZCB0
> aGUgR3Jvc3NlIFB=
>
> 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
>
>
> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
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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.
> >
> >

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