22 Jun
2000
22 Jun
'00
3:17 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Marvin" <marvin(a)rain.org>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, June 22, 2000 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: How do you finance/afford your computer collection?
????????? The original message looks like plain text as does this
one.
What do you see on your end that makes you think it
might be other
than
plain text?
I see your msgs in a stretched font. Quite different from all the
others.
In the headers of your msg, we see:-
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-user-defined
Others are:-
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
(From a Unix box I think)
or
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
(Another Outlook User)
From one of my msgs (Outlook Express)
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1"
In short, your mailer is using an oddbod charset.
If you are using Outlook or Outlook Express, have a look at
Format
Encoding.
In the top toolbar when you are writing or replying to a msg.
It will be set to user-defined.
Set it to Western European (Windows) and it will revert to ISO-8859-1
which
seems to be straight ASCII.
BTW Allison, when you replied, your mailer switched to the same encoding
as his, mine did too, I had to
manually change the format. Grrrr. Bill Gates has a lot to answer
for...
Cheers
Geoff Roberts
Computer Systems Manager
Saint Mark's College
Port Pirie,
South Australia
geoffrob(a)stmarks.pp.catholic.edu.au
netcafe(a)tell.net.au
ICQ: 1970476