[R-G] Re: Rad-Green digest, Vol 1 #203 - 5 msgs

[Hans Ehrbar]

Hi Shifra Lawner,

I am working on the problem with the "unintelligible"
messages.  They are transfer-encoded in base64.  This
encoding protects the contents of the message from
corruption while the email is en route.  Such messages
should be de-coded automatically by your mail reader.
But since they come as part of a digest message,
the headers which instruct your mail reader about
this encoding are missing.

I am working on this problem.  There are other ways to
encode the messages which still leave the messages legible
even if they are encoded; base64 has the disadvantage that
in its encoded state the message is completely illegible.  I
am working on installing a mail filter on our side here
which converts the base64 encoding into another kind of
encoding.


This will still take a few days because I am just learning
about this stuff, and I have a very busy schedule otherwise
too.  In the meanwhile I recommend that you set your
subscription in such a way that you receive the individual
mailings instead of the digest.  The individual mailings
have the headers instructing your mail reader about the
encoding; perhaps your mail reader is intelligent enough to
do the decoding automatically.  If not, you may want to
change your mail reader.

Hans G. Ehrbar,

maintainer of the Utah mailing lists.

>>>>> On Sat, 12 Oct 2002 08:18:37 -0400, "Shifra Lawner"
>>>>> <revshif at taconic.net> said:


> unintelligible

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <rad-green-request at lists.econ.utah.edu>
> To: <rad-green at lists.econ.utah.edu>
> Sent: Friday, October 11, 2002 6:52 PM
> Subject: Rad-Green digest, Vol 1 #203 - 5 msgs

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>> Message: 1
>> To: shniad at sfu.ca
>> From: shniad at sfu.ca
>> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2002 15:50:08 PDT
>> Subject: [R-G] U.S. has a plan to occupy Iraq, officials report - NYT
>> Reply-To: rad-green at lists.econ.utah.edu
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