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Ps - Yahoo group still works :)
by Evan Koblentz 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

Let's remember that the Yahoo group still works while we continue fixing the new list.

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Update - blank msgs, etc.
by Evan Koblentz 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

Everyone, My sense is the blank message problem started when I enabled the option to strip HTML, etc. (even though my early test disproved it partially). As another test, I un-did the "strip HTML" option just now. Let's see if that makes the blank messages problem go away. If so, then anyone whose mail clients can't handle HTML format will have to make changes on their ends (sorry)....

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Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Update - blank msgs, etc.
by Bob Flanders 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

This message was intentionally left blank. On Tue, Nov 3, 2015 at 10:39 AM, Tony Bogan via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote: > > > ---------- Forwarded message ---------- > From: Tony Bogan <apb11368(a)yahoo.com> > To: "vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org" < > vcf-midatlantic(a)lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> > Cc: > Date: Tue, 3 Nov 2015 07:36:52 -0800 > Subject: Re: [vcf-midatlantic] Update - blank msgs, etc. > I've received every email sent to date. Some were blank, some showed the > content. None ever went to my spam folder. This message from Evan showed > perfectly as did Connor's reply. I intentionally left the quoted text below > just to show what showed! :-) > Tony > > > Sent from Yahoo Mail for iPhone <https://yho.com/footer0> > > On Nov 3, 2015, 10:32:27 AM, Connor Krukosky via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > On 11/3/2015 10:21 AM, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote: > > > If so, then anyone whose mail clients can't handle HTML format will > > have to make changes on their ends (sorry).... > > Or we can find a better mailing list manager that actually works for > everyone instead of settling for something that only works for 'most' of > the users we have. > I've heard a suggestion or two from other members, maybe ask everyone > for what everyone suggests. > I personally have had no problems with the new mailing list but I > dislike it when I've heard that someone received my post in their spam > folder... > Defeats the point of a mailing list if only some of the people actually > receive the posts... > > -Connor K > > > >

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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 03 Nov '15

03 Nov '15

P.O.S.T.

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