November 2015 - vcf-midatlantic

Can you see this reply Dean?
by Tony Bogan 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

This came through fine for me and the link worked perfectly.Apparently Dean could not see it though.Tony Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone On Thursday, November 5, 2015, 11:07 AM, Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: I am sending this as a test (sending plain text with a link) Apple IIc Prototype. Looks legit. https://anewdayauctions.proxibid.com/asp/LotDetail.asp?ahid=3493&aid=101939…

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test without link
by Christian Liendo 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

Ok.. I am testing text without a link per se.. I put it in quotes. "anewdayauctions.proxibid.com/asp/LotDetail.asp?ahid=3493&aid=101939&lid=273…" Lets see what this does

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Test with an interesting auction
by Dean Notarnicola 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

Blank message body On Thursday, November 5, 2015, Christian Liendo via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: >

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DOS Floppy Disks
by Tom H. 05 Nov '15

05 Nov '15

To All, I have an offer from a former colleague to get ~1000 DOS Floppies that he has in filing cabinets. They contain MSDOS programs from DOS 1.0 and up. If VCF or any members are interested, I can make arrangements to get them. My former colleague wants to shit can them next Tue the 10th. Thanks, Tom H

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MIME format
by Evan Koblentz 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

I am pretty sure that our list automatically strips MIME-formatted messages. Basically we have a choice. We can keep that setting and appease people who don't want formatted stuff, or we can eliminate it and appease people who don't want to use plain text. My opinion is that eliminating the option is probably the better choice, because it would be a compromise between having a traditional list vs. having a configuration which would likely not work for some (especially younger) members.

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Internet Archive telethon
by Evan Koblentz 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

Recommended reading: http://ascii.textfiles.com/archives/4813

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Can you see me?
by Herb Johnson 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

I read the list from the lists.v..c..f.org Web site, with an old version of Firefox Web browser. I am of course registered to the list but I have turned off email sends to me. This email was from my email client and constructed with correct To: and subject: "by hand". Never mind why I do this. When I read on my Web browser, Tony Bogan's email message, Wed Nov 4 14:44:51 CET 2015, from the v...c..f site, my Web browser shows the usual previous/next/messages sorted stuff, the subject line and so on. The body of the message is only An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <so and so/attachment.html> [as active link] Upon clicking the link above, my browser does NOT show an HTML document, it shows the text content of the HTML document with of course HTML tags. Now, oddly enough, when I download that HTML document and save it as a plain-text file with an HTML extension; and then "click" the file to display it under my same Web browser; the browser accepts the HTML tags and processes the HTML tags. I make no comments as I'm not qualified. Others with more knowledge can do what I've done as a diagnostic if it's useful. And of course one can access the lists.v..c..f.org Web site to see messages, some of which they may not have received by email. Herb Johnson -- Herbert R. Johnson, New Jersey USA http://www.retrotechnology.com OR .net

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One month 'til Festivus!
by Evan Koblentz 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

I'm excited about it. Will bring a big tray of soft pretzels. Those went over well last year.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Can you see me?
by Systems Glitch 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

> So can anyone see this? I can. I do get both a RFC822 email and a plaintext message, so I'm assuming your client is sending in both HTML + Plaintext. Pretty sure that's the way you want it, if you're stuck with sending HTML email. Thanks, Jonathan

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Unsure Can you see me?
by Evan Koblentz 04 Nov '15

04 Nov '15

>> Ok, kinda feel like the Whos from Horton Hears a Who. "We are here! We are here!" So can anyone see this? Who? Errrr yes.

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