Robert Wittig wrote:
>
> > I'm not sure how one disables the annoying non-standard escape sequences
> > used by Microsoft's mail clients. ISTR someone else having this same
> > problem several months ago. There's probably some way to disable this,
> > but I'll be damned if I ever launch a Microsoft mail client. I've
> > avoided ever doing so thus far, and I'm not about to taint myself at
> > this point--even if it is for a good cause. :-)
>
> That was my text, being back-quoted by John, that had the weird escape codes. Is
> the problem something that is being generated by John's backquote, or am I the
> culprit?
>
> I am also using OE 5, and it should not be creating such a problem. I do a lot
> of posting on tech lists and NG's, where any deviation from plain ASCII rates an
> immediate flame, and to date, no-one has ever mentioned a problem. I also use
> pine and Netscrape on my *nix boxes, and have Calypso set up on this box, and
> have never seen anything like this before.
>
> OE 5 has several choices for indent on replies... I am using '> '. If John is
> using ': ' or '| ', (the other 2 choices), they might be getting read as
> something else by your MUA, and changing the indent might eliminate the problem.
> What MUA's are you guys running?
>
I think it's something with John's mailer. I read the message on Outlook
2000 and Netscape 4.7, and I think Pine too, and they all showed the
weird stuff...
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---Dave Woyciesjes
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Received on Tue Nov 05 2002 - 08:49:01 GMT