On Fri, Apr 14, 2006 at 04:04:53PM -0400, Rich Johnson wrote: > > On Apr 14, 2006, at 3:26 PM, Steve Lamb wrote: > > >Doofus wrote: > >>Since one of the points of this thread seems to be to highlight the > >>incidences of people blithely advising "do as it says at the > >>bottom of > >>the post" to other people who evidently can't see anything at the > >>bottom > >>of the post, then to argue "oh yes it is there as long as you know > >>which > >>spells and incantations to cast in order to see it" seems to me to be > >>unfairly bogging down the novice with unhelpful pedantics. > >>Especially > >>when the kind of person incapable of unsubscribing from a mailing > >>list > >>is unlikely to even know what you're talking about when you tell > >>them to > >>view the raw message. > > > > Point is that there is a different condition between it being > >there and > >the client failing to show it. How? Because if it wasn't there > >*NO* client > >would show it. Just because one, or a few, clients don't show it > >doesn't mean > >all don't show it. It's called being precise in reporting problems. > > > >-- > > Steve C. Lamb | I'm your priest, I'm your shrink, > >I'm your > > PGP Key: 8B6E99C5 | main connection to the switchboard > >of souls. > >------------------------------- > >+--------------------------------------------- > I'm using a different reader altogether and I sometimes see the > unsubscribe annotation and sometimes I don't. > The difference correlates perfectly with whether the message is > multipart mime(rfc1341), or not.--it does not appear whenever the > sender mails a multi-part message. For example you _WON'T_ see it > with Steve's messages as illustrated above; you _WILL_ see it with > this message (I hope). > > Taking a brief look at the specs, but not enough to grok them: > I suspect that the problem is that the notice is tacked on _after_ > the attachments---essentially turning the notice into an "epilog'' > <i> without a content-type</i> rather than either: > (a) placing it within the first text part; or > (b) attaching it as a well-formed part. > > Since it's an ill-formed part, it's properly ignored.
Aha! I've been wondering how spammers manage to send me 1354-line messages although only 10 lines aver show up in mutt. Could this be the same mechanism, inadvertently? -- hendrik -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
