From: Fred C. Moulton (moulton@moulton.com)
Date: Tue Jun 19 2001 - 00:32:33 MDT
The following is a slightly simplified response but it covers the main
points.
There is a reason why some people see plain ASCII and some people see
HTML. What is happening is that the message arrives in both plain ASCII
and HTML with the ASCII shown first. Mail clients which can display
HTML with display the HTML and other mail clients which can not display
HTML will display ASCII. You can see this if you read the mail from the
command line on an ASCII terminal. (Yes there are some of us you still
remember how). I opened my mail on a Unix system via the command line
and saved the message and am including it so that you can see what I am
talking about. Note that I have added a ">" and a space " " at the
beginning of each line so that mail clients will try to render the
HTML. Also those who are interested can examine the mail headers to get
an idea about mail transport.
Have fun
Fred
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> From: "Smigrodzki, Rafal" <SmigrodzkiR@MSX.UPMC.EDU>
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> Subject: HTML
> Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2001 09:47:56 -0400
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>
> I am sorry about the difficulties many people have with reading my posts - I
> tried to get it fixed but the support staff at the UPMC Presbyterian, my
> internet provider, was unable to help (I am not on AOL, by the way). The
> format on my end is toggled to plain text but apparently the server is
> converting it to MIME (that's what the local experts said).
>
> I see on my reader that my posts appear as plain text followed by an HTML
> version. Do you see only the messy part?
>
> Rafal Smigrodzki MD-PhD
> Dept Neurology University of Pittsburgh
> smigrodzkir@msx.upmc.edu
>
> ------_=_NextPart_001_01C0F7FD.477F3740
> Content-Type: text/html;
> charset="iso-8859-1"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2//EN">
> <HTML>
> <HEAD>
> <META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; =
> charset=3Diso-8859-1">
> <META NAME=3D"Generator" CONTENT=3D"MS Exchange Server version =
> 5.5.2653.12">
> <TITLE>HTML</TITLE>
> </HEAD>
> <BODY>
>
> <P><FONT SIZE=3D2>I am sorry about the difficulties many people have =
> with reading my posts - I tried to get it fixed but the support staff =
> at the UPMC Presbyterian, my internet provider, was unable to =
> help (I am not on AOL, by the way). The format on my end is toggled to =
> plain text but apparently the server is converting it to MIME (that's =
> what the local experts said).</FONT></P>
>
> <P><FONT SIZE=3D2>I see on my reader that my posts appear as plain text =
> followed by an HTML version. Do you see only the messy part?</FONT>
> </P>
>
> <P><FONT SIZE=3D2>Rafal Smigrodzki MD-PhD</FONT>
> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>Dept Neurology University of Pittsburgh</FONT>
> <BR><FONT SIZE=3D2>smigrodzkir@msx.upmc.edu</FONT>
> </P>
>
> </BODY>
> </HTML>
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>
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