Hi All, I've always meant to ask this but never got around to it, but I recently had to re-subscribe to get the list in the form of a digest once again and now that I have, I am aware of it once again....okay, so the question is: When I started to get the individual messages of the list everything was normal, but now that I am back on the "digest" I get all of this gobbledy-gook between the actual messages. Here is a cut and paste of what I am talking about (please skip to the rest of my message at the bottom): <div class=Section1> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>The fragile cd single version IS a studio <span class=GramE>version,</span> I got this confirmed via a Universal guy …<o:p></o:p></span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 color=navy face=Arial><span style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Arial;color:navy'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <div style='border:none;border-left:solid blue 1.5pt;padding:0cm 0cm 0cm 4.0pt'> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size: 10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma;mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>-----Original Message-----<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>From:</span></b> </span></font><st1:PersonName><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma; mso-ansi-language:EN-US'>Fred Berthelot</span></font></st1:PersonName><font size=2 face=Tahoma><span lang=EN-US style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Tahoma; mso-ansi-language:EN-US'> [mailto:F.Berthelot@ramsa.com<span class=GramE>] <br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Sent</span></b></span><b><span style='font-weight:bold'>:</span></b> Tuesday, November 20, 2001 11:12 PM<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>To:</span></b> 'frotri@panafonet.gr'; Steve Agovino<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Cc:</span></b> police@mailman.xmission.com<br> <b><span style='font-weight:bold'>Subject:</span></b> RE: [Police] ...All This Time - US release</span></font></p> <p class=MsoNormal><font size=3 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size: 12.0pt'><o:p> </o:p></span></font></p> <p><font size=2 face="Times New Roman"><span style='font-size:10.0pt'>I'm actually not so sure that the "live" version of Fragile is the actual live version. The album version sounds an awful lot like the single version. There were a couple of "mistakes" in the live performance of Fragile that are not apparent on the album. If you saved the webcast, you can clearly see the difference...</span></font><o:p></o:p></p> </div> </div> </body> </html> --Boundary_(ID_kYR5Yqi4UXOCZqmSV3sYYQ)-- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- It looks like it is a copy of the message in html added to the normal message and it is driving me nuts. So can anyone tell me if there is anything I can do to eliminate this crap? It makes reading the digest a real pain and hard to focus in on the actual messages. I also get repeated "normal" messages sometimes within the same digest if anyone has a thought about that as well. Sorry this took up so much space, but I really am enjoying the posts and would like to read them in digest form. Thanks in advance for any help. Rob
The nonsense you get is indeed HTML. Some people on the list send HTML mail. The "digest" software strings all the messages together, which makes the HTML impossible for your e-mail program to decipher, so what you get is all text and mostly gibberish. The repeated messages are people quoting the entire message they're replying to. Be grateful nobody here uses parchments or sound in their e-mail, then the digest would contain thousands of lines of random letters and numbers... One thing you can try to do is change your subscription status again, and set it to MIME digests. In MIME format, the digest is not one long message containing the text of all the day's posts. Rather, it is a message with several attachments, each of which is one post. If you e-mail client can handle attachments, this may be more convenient for you. In this format, you don't have to try to figure out where one post starts and the other ends, and you don't have to look at raw HTML. I think you can also set your subscription to "no mail", and just read the messages on the web. Good luck, Orit
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