November 2015 - vcf-midatlantic

Test
by Jeffrey Brace 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

Using my MSN account. Can you read me?

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My theory is disproven.
by Evan Koblentz 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

I disabled HTML composition in my desktop email (Thunderbird on Ubuntu) and sent a plain-text message to the new list. It worked normal. Then I enabled HTML composition and sent an HTML-formatted message to the new list. IT STILL WORKED NORMALLY. Thus, my theory about how the text-only option in Mailman causing HTML messages to be the attachments = false. Something else is causing certain messages to appear as attachments.

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] blank messages in vcf-midatlantic Digest, Vol 1, Issue 11
by gsteemso 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

I am one of those benighted few who has signed up for the digest version, and I think it's a good thing I did, because so far I've been getting as many as three or four digests a day, though admittedly those are mostly full of test messages. Every digest to date has shown up in my iPhone mail client as a list of MIME attachments, over 90% of which need to be individually downloaded before it will open them. Lately, almost all of those individual messages have shown up with the notice "this message has no content." I believe that of the ten messages in the digest this message is a reply to, only three actually displayed correctly. Some of that is undoubtedly due to defects in the crappy Apple mail reader, but since I do almost all of my email from there, it remains a significant data point, at least to me. While I'm on the subject, does anyone know of an iPhone mail client that is as user-friendly as the Crapple one but actually works properly from a vintage computing perspective? So far my only alternative is the Gmail client, which works well on the iPad but is awkward as hell on my phone because I have multiple Google accounts.

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This email is HTML format
by Evan Koblentz 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

Here are some HTML characters.

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This email is plain text format
by Evan Koblentz 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

Here is some plain text.

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Test again
by Richard Cini 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

Test again Sent from my iPhone

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OK, one more test post
by Corey Little 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

P.O.S.T.

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Test again
by Corey Little 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

OK, best case test, straight from gmail, no POP3 client involved, no attachments, and no formatted text. Can you hear me now? -Corey L. Curator, cpmuseum.com

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Test Post / Practice Safe Computing
by Corey Little 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

Since my last post was several generations of listserv updates ago, and I never did see my own post in reply, here goes again. To test the worst case, I also "forgot" to set the post to plain text, and added an attachment. A little tidbit from Macworld 1989. Practice Safe Computing. Use a MacCondom. -Corey L. Curator, cpmuseum.com

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What? No comment on the Lisa Mouse for $9000?
by william degnan 02 Nov '15

02 Nov '15

There is a Lisa mouse for sale on Ebay (171983561235) currently going for $8995. I did not get any replies to my original post about it, so I thought I'd try again.... I checked sold listings for Lisa, some have the flat button Lisa mouse, some do not. Exactly how rare is the original mouse? No way it's worth $9000 IMHO -- Bill

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