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Message no. 1
From: runnerpaul@*****.com runnerpaul@*****.com
Subject: [OT][Arm Chair Tech Support & Humor] Doc's Crappy Workplace.
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 11:14:27 -0400 (EDT)
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At 10:24 PM 9/19/99 -0700, Rand Ratinac wrote:
::(Disclaimer: This was not intended as a flame at all; note the use
::of smileys. This was also not intended to start a client war, or a
::platform war. This post was not intended to be replied to; anyone
::trying to make a thread out of this, I will carp personally.)
:
:All I have to say to this is:
:
:a) Hardy har har

I know I said I'd carp anyone replying to this, but since it was
about you, I'll make an exception.

:and
:
:b) Rephrase: my WORKPLACE uses IE 4.0 and I'm not allowed to use
:anything else. Okay?
:
:Any ideas now?

Find a new employer? :)


Seriously though, the problem doesn't seem to be so much IE 4.0's
fault, as it is Yahoo's. It's sending out your mail as MIME
Content-Type: text/plain, which is good, but it's also sending it out
charset=iso-8859-1 which I think might be part of what's causing the
problem. On some clients/platforms, what's listed in your "From:"
header is coming across as:
Rand Ratinac?so it looks like the space character in the middle is getting
interpreted as a special character that needs to be encoded (the
part).

Now, yours isn't the only mail software that sends out in the
iso-8859-1 charset, but most software seems to set off the charset
name in quotes (charset="iso-8859-1") while Yahoo doesn't. I wonder
if that's what's causing the glitch.

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Message no. 2
From: Rand Ratinac docwagon101@*****.com
Subject: [OT][Arm Chair Tech Support & Humor] Doc's Crappy Workplace.
Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1999 19:24:32 -0700 (PDT)
> :All I have to say to this is:
> :
> :a) Hardy har har
>
> I know I said I'd carp anyone replying to this, but since it was
about you, I'll make an exception.

Kind of you. :)

> Find a new employer? :)

You offering a job?

> Seriously though, the problem doesn't seem to be so much IE 4.0's
fault, as it is Yahoo's. It's sending out your mail as MIME
Content-Type: text/plain, which is good, but it's also sending it out
charset=iso-8859-1 which I think might be part of what's causing the
problem. On some clients/platforms, what's listed in your "From:"
header is coming across as: Rand Ratinac so it looks
like the space character in the middle is getting interpreted as a
special character that needs to be encoded (the part).
>
> Now, yours isn't the only mail software that sends out in the
iso-8859-1 charset, but most software seems to set off the charset name
in quotes (charset="iso-8859-1") while Yahoo doesn't. I wonder if
that's what's causing the glitch.
> -- Paul Gettle, #186 of 1000

*Doc' stares blankly. "Er...yeah, yeah...I'm sure that's it. Now...how
do I fix it?"*

==Doc'
(aka Mr. Freaky Big, Super-Dynamic Troll of Tomorrow)

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