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>>> Posting number 71168 Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 12:43:18 -0500 From: janet paterson <[log in to unmask]> Subj: LIST: Re: Duplicates - E-mail Formats - Plain/Text Vs Multipart/Mixed hi all i replied to darwin: ... >>i don't have MSExchange >>but somewhere in its settings for >>preferences or options or user set-up or configuration... >>there is a setting for "Content-Type:" >>make sure that "multipart/mixed" is not selected >>and that >>"text/plain" is the only option selected ... So, somewhere in between sending your first message and your second message to me yesterday, your e-mail software settings got changed from this: >Content-Type: multipart/mixed; > boundary="----_=_NextPart_000_01BF26EE.C75CADF8" to this: >Content-Type: text/plain which very likely has been behind the 'duplicates problem' all along. MS Exchange may refer to "Content-Type:" in different terms; but this is a critical setting in instructing the mail server machines as to the formatting of your messages. "Multipart/Mixed" refers to new-ish options available for sending messages in formats other than "Plain/Text", i.e. in HTML format for viewing as a WWWeb document, and in another image format [possibly GIF] for viewing as a graphics document. Sending E-mail in formats other than "Plain/Text" is a badly conceived idea, in my humble opinion - doing so contradicts all the internet conventions and standards which established the universal accessibility of this miraculous medium in the first place. "Multipart/Mixed E-mail" strikes me as an OxyMoron of the most Moronic type. If Microsoft [my suspicion] conceived of this concept, well, all I can say is, "It figures." The "boring" Plain/Text format [no fancy fonts, no fancy colours, no fancy graphics] of internet communication forms the backbone and structure of the net. "All you get" are the words, but the words get to all. Maybe that's what Marshall McLuhan [a former Professor of English at the University of Toronto!] meant when he said, "The medium is the message." And now I say, "Mixing the medium is a mess." janet on a rant janet paterson 52 now / 41 dx / 37 onset a new voice: http://www.geocities.com/janet313/ 613 256 8340 PO Box 171 Almonte Ontario Canada K0A 1A0