Re: [AMC-list] List

[tom jennings <tomj@xxxxxxx>]

We've tried really hard to administer the technology involved in delivering
AMC-list mailing list to you in plain text, but that sort of thing has long
since gone the way of bench seats and three-on-the-tree: as much as we like
it, it's simply not available on the market any more.

The "new" mailing list is identical to the old one -- exactly the same
software as before! -- but this one is one tiny revision newer. And there is
NOTHING I can do to move back one version.

It may be that in the entire world, "plain text" email is no more.

That said, I don't really understand why anyone is having trouble with "MIME
attachments". Any mail client program written in the last 10 years supports
it 100% transparently.

To be blunt -- if you can't view anything but plain text email there's a
problem at your end. We'll help you fix it, as we can, but it's time I think
to move on from this plain text requirement. It's not a matter of DESIRE,
it's a matter of AVAILABLE TOOLS -- they don't exist any more for us to
deliver mail suitable for "plain text only".

Except for readers-for-the-blind, who always get screwed, there are FREE,
no-cost mail clients that will silently automatically and transparently
handle all kinds of mail, for Windows98 and newer, and any Apple OS X
version, and all of linux.



On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 12:16, Sandwich Maker <adh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> " From: Frank Swygert <farna@xxxxxxx>
> "
> " []
> "
> " Your posts all have a question mark in key places. probably carriage
> " returns and some punctuation. The list is set up to only take plain
> " text, so you're probably sending in HTML or MIME and the list software
> " is converting what it can. Codes it doesn't understand it replaces
> " with a question mark.
>
> i've also seen this when the poster uses an 8-bit charset, iso8859-1
> for example.  'plain text' [ascii] is a 7-bit charset and afaik all
> 8-bit sets with the roman alphabet build on it, but if/when you start
> using characters from the 'upper half' - accented vowels, fancy
> quotes, a few special symbols, etc - you're no longer in 'plain text'
> territory.
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