Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 1998/11/11
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Brian sent this to me and asked me to forward it along. I had mentioned some missing elements from my digest and Brian appears to have figured out why. List users need to look carefully at their own mail programs and make sure attatchments are not being automatically sent along. The cause of this particular mishap is a Windows user. (I'm sure THAT narrows it down :) Thanks....charles Subject: Re: [Leica] Missing digest bits Sent: 11/11/98 2:03 AM Received: 11/11/98 8:17 AM From: Brian Reid, brian@reid.org To: Charles, chaslor@mindspring.com CC: reid@mejac.palo-alto.ca.us The problem you are having with lost mail from the digest is caused by the misconfiguration of the mailer of the person who sent the "brochure postscript" message. It included, right at the point where your mailer went haywire, a Windows 95 artifact that looked like an Attachement/Enclosure of an illegal file called "winmail1.dat". Your mailer went berzerko as a result of receving that illegal file. It seems to be a lost cause to get people to configure their mailers correctly. I see no option but for me to figure out how to program majordomo to reject all postings from people whose mailers are configured wrong. Please forward this to the list if you do not feel that such forwarding will violate your privacy. Brian Reid