Problem Posts????? was Re: Altair 8800 front panel lamps - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

2 Jun 2001

Thankyou!

The problem with that is not only did it change fonts it also went for
the
Largest font!  There is nothing naster than reading in my preferred
9pt sans serif and ending up with a 22 (yes huge!) serif font.  Can
you say YELLING. ;)

Allison
-----Original Message-----
From: Marvin &lt;marvin(a)rain.org&gt;
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org &lt;classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org&gt;
Date: Saturday, June 02, 2001 11:33 PM
Subject: Re: Problem Posts????? was Re: Altair 8800 front panel lamps

...

Okay, and I would ONLY change it for you Allison :), is this any better? I
...
 just set it
to ISO-8859-1 (Western.)

Dave McGuire wrote:
>
> On June 2, Chuck McManis wrote:
> > I'm guessing it is these two. I don't know what mail client Allison
uses
...
 > > but perhaps when it sees the request for the
'x-user-defined' character set
...
 > > it freaks. Most MIME clients put ISO_LATIN1
there and they are not bothersome.
...
 > >
> >          Content-Type: text/plain; charset=x-user-defined
> >          Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
> >
> > This reminds me yet again of a what a _wonderful_ hack to Majordomo,
> > Listserve, or what ever that would take the message submission and
> > _reformat it_ into plain text regardless of how it was sent. Then send it
...
 > > to the list that way (and strip off
attachments etc) That is the kind of
...
 > > list I want to subscribe to because even when
a newbie screws up (and
...
 > > Marvin isn't one, he just has some
interesting headers) no one suffers.
...
 >
>   I would love something like this.  Anyone know of a majordomo hack
> (or another package) that does this?
>
>        -Dave McGuire 