Re: modem config.............

[Pieter Meiring <nospam [at] sheffield.ac.uk>]

> >Ross's posts drive my mail user agent nuts. They seem to contain
> >control characters, both in the raw and in quoted printable. It looks
> >like it might be byte-reversed fixed-width Unicode, but his headers
> >specifically say ISO-8859-1.
>

Ross's messages are multipart MIME enoded things much beloved of Micro$loth
Mailers. Only part of the message is useful text; the rest is formatting
information, etc.

I use exmh at this end which allows you to view all parts of a MIME encoded
message in various formats so you do not miss anything - the default decoding
for these particular messages (text/html) results in a blank message! - I
wonder if this is a conspiracy!? ;)

Pieter

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