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Michael Doelle <[log in to unmask]>
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SCUBA or ELSE! Diver's forum <[log in to unmask]>
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Tue, 13 Jan 2004 15:48:00 -0500
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Lee said,

>I understand, but it's not my misattributions.  I do nothing to create
them.
To the best of my knowledge, your posts are the only ones that don't work
right.<

Your mail program probably adds something that *you* can see, but pure
ASCII readers like 
mine can't.  That is, your program probably adds some characters or
formatting that show them to you as 'quoted', 
but my reader does not see them.

>> To everyone else: please set your mailer to 'wrap long lines'.
>> I hate having to reformat all the time.

>Is this a problem with my posts as well?  On my end, my posts wrap fine.

No, your's wrap fine at 80 characters. No problem there. Many others just
continue off screen.

> If you've got a setting to suggest, I'll give it a try.  Same
goes for the attribution issue.  If there's an easy fix, then neither of us
has to manually fix things.<

From your header:
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Priority: 3
X-MSMail-Priority: Normal
X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2800.1158

iso-8859-1 (Latin 1) is not an ASCII character set, it is an 8 bit code
which differs from ASCII above 0x7F, that is the upper 128 characters are
different from extended ASCII. Pure ASCII is originally 7-bit.
But the header also says it transfers 7-bit. Which is fine, but maybe
that's why something you see on your 
screen gets discarded when it's mailed. I'm not a mailer expert really.
Maybe someone else is.
There's also an option in Outlook somewhere to mail using 'Text only' mode.
Is that on?

M

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