Upon the date 12:08 PM 8/22/99 -0700, Sellam Ismail said something like:
>On Sat, 21 Aug 1999, Christian Fandt wrote:
>
>> Is it true that Jon and some others do not get a type of header containing
>> all the info such others of us do? Such as the following FWD'ed piece of
>> Sellam's msg:
>
>Wow, I've never seen that stuff. Does that appear for every message you
>read in your mailer software? It's probably in the headers, but PINE
>doesn't display it for me.
Hi Sellam,
Just got back from a mini vacation down to Dayton, Oh. (That Air Force
Museum just gets better and better . . . :) So, I'm just getting into a
stack of 448 messages piled up since Sunday AM.
Yes, it does appear for every msg from ClassicCmp. Those five lines just
suddenly started to be included with the header one day and that day _may_,
IIRC, have coincided with the new list server software Derek mentioned that
the U. of Wash. installed.
Here's the five extra header lines copied again for those who weren't
keeping track of the thread early on:
"List-Help: <
http://www.washington.edu/computing/listproc/>
List-Unsubscribe:
<mailto:listproc_at_u.washington.edu?body=unsubscribe%20classiccmp>
List-Subscribe:
<mailto:listproc_at_u.washington.edu?body=subscribe%20classiccmp%20YourName>
List-Owner: <mailto:classiccmp-request_at_u.washington.edu> (Human contact for
the list)
List-Post: <mailto:classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>"
I haven't ever used PINE but I understand it is a text only email program
(which is what we only need 99.95% of the time.) So, perhaps there's some
funny stuff going on with the formatting of the text and PINE just happily
ignores it. With Eudora Pro, for example, those URLs are underlined links
and all I have to do is click on one if I need to use that function. Sort
of handy I think, but it does add to the length of the msg file.
I suppose Derek may have weighed-in already with his expert input on the
list s/w, so I'd better shut up now. (Hey, he's a student and keeper of
this list at the U. of Washington, so that makes hime the de facto "expert" ;)
Regards, Chris
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Christian Fandt, Electronic/Electrical Historian
Jamestown, NY USA cfandt_at_netsync.net
Member of Antique Wireless Association
URL:
http://www.antiquewireless.org/
Received on Wed Aug 25 1999 - 20:48:41 BST