Blank Synth-Diy posts

[Mark Pulver]

Folks have been saying:

>> << I'm getting a lot of blank posts from synth-diy.
>> Anyone else have this problem too? >>
>> 
>> Me too! - In fact today (20th feb) I had 11 - Is this a record?:)
>
>   I've gotten a bunch too.  The funny thing is that some people are 
>receiving the whole information.  I saw at least one reply to a message I 
>received blank.
>   This is the only list that's been doing this to me.  :(

Some of what's going on is that some folks are using "quoted replies" for
their messages. In some cases, this will cause the mail piece to have
invalid characters in it. If that happens, then some email readers will
dump all of the text of the mail piece, leaving only the headers. As well,
your POP server may not even pass on the text, only the header which will
give the same net effect.

If you're reading a message like this with a UNIX client local to the POP
server, then usually the client will say something to the effect of "this
message contains non-ascii characters, do you wish to view anyway".

Mark
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