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hi all i asked darwin if i could share the following with everyone since MS Exchange seems to almost everywhere: "Yeah, go ahead, and I didn't change anything yesterday (that I know of or can remember, but alas, I turned 61 yesterday also and maybe lost a few more neurons)." thanks darwin, and heppy be-lated burp-day! janet ------------------------------------------------------------------ Hi all; >>>>>At 12:02 1999/11/04 -0600, Darwin wrote to me: >>>>>Just rejoined the PIE yesterday, been off for a couple of months. >>>>>The first digests I received were as follows:... >>>>>Two sets of three duplicates and one stand alone... >>>>And then I wrote: >>>>which software program do you use for e-mail? >>>>do you receive any other e-mail from a LISTSERV mailing list?... >>>And then Darwin wrote: >>>Microsoft Exchange. >>>No other lists. >>And then I wrote: >>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 >And then Darwin wrote: >Cannot find any such thing as "text/plain" or "multipart/mixed" >under any setting and I don't find "Content-Type". >I am now receiving the digest in the form I was originally >receiving it many moons ago (when I didn't have any problems). >One e-mail with all the postings sequentially in the same >document, rather than message attachments to a "cover letter". >Fine with me. That's good news! The complete listing of 'cyberdeegook' headers [minus the routing information] from your message this morning is: >Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]> >From: "Hawkins, Darwin" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "'janet paterson'" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: RE: Duplicates >Date: Fri, 5 Nov 1999 08:28:39 -0600 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) >Content-Type: text/plain >Status: and from your second message yesterday: >Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]> >From: "Hawkins, Darwin" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "'janet paterson'" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: RE: Duplicates >Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 16:08:20 -0600 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) >Content-Type: text/plain >Status: and from your first message yesterday: >Return-Path: <[log in to unmask]> >From: "Hawkins, Darwin" <[log in to unmask]> >To: "'janet paterson'" <[log in to unmask]> >Subject: Duplicates >Date: Thu, 4 Nov 1999 12:02:34 -0600 >MIME-Version: 1.0 >X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.5.2448.0) >Content-Type: multipart/mixed; > boundary="----_=_NextPart_000_01BF26EE.C75CADF8" >Status: 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 e-mail - [log in to unmask] web-site - http://www.geocities.com/SoHo/Village/6263/