[arachne] Fw: RE: Re: My misbehaving ISP (base64 test)

I had no problems with this e-mail, just one HTML attachment that read
fine.

CU, Bastiaan


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Title: [arachne] Re: My misbehaving ISP
 Apologies in advance if this is unreadable ...
 
Well, Sam, in answer to "Maybe Joe could explain why he's doing",
I'm tempted to say, RTFM, where in this case, the M stands for
"message(s)", since I have explained the situation many times
already, and am getting rather annoyed at people suggesting I use
a different e-mail client.
 
So, for the last time: This problem with freelists is NOT caused by
my e-mail CLIENT, it is caused by the Symantec firewall software
that our IT people run on our e-mail SERVER. This is not something
that I have any control over. Sometimes this works out, sometimes
it doesn't.
 
 Apologies for getting stroppy.
 
Joe.

From: arachne-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx on behalf of Sam Ewalt
Sent: Thu 29/09/2005 5:43 AM
To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [arachne] Re: My misbehaving ISP

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On Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:10:16 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

> When my ISP auto-converts the base64 messages to 8 bit they
> become unreadable.

> Are there other people here who are also experiencing a similar
> problem with their ISP's in the case of messages posted to the
> list by Joe da Silva?


There would be no problem at all if Joe just used any one of
a myriad of email clients (there must be dozens and dozens of
email clients for every imaginable platform) that sends plain
old ordainary text like a reasonable person would have the courtesy
to do if he was interested in actually communicating with us
Arachnoids.

Email is not difficult. Why make it frustrating by using a
_javascript_ enabled web browser to send messages that can't be
read?

I just don't get it. Maybe Joe could explain why he's doing
what he's doing. I'll assume that he has his reason, even if
he's never bothered to clue us in about this.



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