One last time (and then I give up....)

[Robin Landseadel]

On Dec 10, 2008, at 8:01 AM, Ray Easton wrote:

> Robin Landseadel wrote:
>> Again, the concern isn't how HTML looks in our e-mail programs,  
>> it's how HTML sub-codes appear on the Waste.org archives, which  
>> appear to be steam powered.
> Not trying to beat a dead  horse, just trying to understand exactly  
> what the problem is...  Is the problem that the codes are  
> unconverted (stored as text) on/by Waste?   In that case, it would  
> seem that pasting the text into an html-aware reader would recreate  
> the original without junk.  Or is the problem that the codes ARE  
> converted, into something that can no longer be read as anything but  
> junk?
>
Ray

The problem is that the codes are un-converted over at WASTE, into  
something that can no longer be read as anything but junk when stored  
at the Waste archives. The back and forth for us active in the p-list  
is passed along to my Comcast or Apple e-mail reader where  
everything's fine, but Tim Ware looking up the same messages at:

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0812

Has him reading messages like:

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0812&msg=130989&sort=date

. . . with parts coming out like:

blind.</span></font></div><div><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" =
size=3D"4"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: =
14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" =
size=3D"4"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: =
14px;">"Oh blinding Light,</span></font></div><div><font =
class=3D"Apple-style-span" size=3D"4"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" =
style=3D"font-size: 14px;">Oh Light That =
Blinds</span></font></div><div><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" =
size=3D"4"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size:  
14px;">I =
cannot See,</span></font></div><div><font class=3D"Apple-style-span" =
size=3D"4"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" style=3D"font-size: =
14px;">Look Out For Meeeeeeee. . . ."</span></font></div><div><font =
class=3D"Apple-style-span" size=3D"4"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" =
style=3D"font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font =
class=3D"Apple-style-span" size=3D"4"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" =
style=3D"font-size: 14px;">"Thunk"</span></font></div><div><font =
class=3D"Apple-style-span" size=3D"4"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" =
style=3D"font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font =
class=3D"Apple-style-span" size=3D"4"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" =
style=3D"font-size: 14px;">Firesign Theater: "Don't Crush That Dwarf, =
Hand Me the Pliers."</span></font></div><div><font =
class=3D"Apple-style-span" size=3D"4"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" =
style=3D"font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font></div><div><font =
class=3D"Apple-style-span" size=3D"4"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" =
style=3D"font-size: 14px;"><br></span></font><div><div><font =
class=3D"Apple-style-span" size=3D"4"><span class=3D"Apple-style-span" =
style=3D"font-size: 14px;">On Dec 7, 2008, at 9:23 AM, Robin  
Landseadel =
wrote:</span></font></div><font class=3D"Apple-style-span"