Re: [OT] Heads up

From: Arthur J. O'Dwyer (ajo_at_nospam.andrew.cmu.edu)
Date: 10/06/04 

Date: Wed, 6 Oct 2004 17:35:22 -0400 (EDT)

On Wed, 6 Oct 2004, Christopher Benson-Manica wrote:
>
> Dave Vandervies <dj3vande@csclub.uwaterloo.ca> spoke thus:
>
>> Other than incorrectly reporting a one-part post as multipart, it seems
>> to be doing The Right Thing with the non-ASCII characters he was quoting.
>
> Well, the main thing is that Arthur normally doesn't post MIME-encoded
> messages; this happened once in the past, where something fubar'ed his
> news setup and everything was MIME until he fixed it.

   Yeah. I do think the non-ASCII characters had something to do with
it this time, though. I've sent a message to the people who are supposed
to know what's up with the Andrew system's software, just in case it's the
weird MIME thing coming back. But if this message doesn't show up as
MIME, then I guess it was just a one-time weirdness.

   (For the record, I can't see any difference in the displayed posts in
this client, which is why I didn't notice until Chris brought it up last
time or this time. I can, however, choose to look at the actual message
headers to find out whether it's still doing it. So please don't reply to
this post /only/ to say "yes, it's MIME" or "no, it's fixed"---I'll be
able to see that myself. And if it's not fixed, all I can do is wait for
the systems people to tell me what the deal is.)

Thanks for the heads-up,
-Arthur