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

[kelber at mindspring.com]

In my case, it doesn't add lots of formatting junk, but it does this obnoxious thing where it prints my entire paragraph as one long sentence.

http://waste.org/mail/?list=pynchon-l&month=0807&msg=127608&keywords=kelber

Laura
-----Original Message-----
>From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
>Sent: Dec 10, 2008 12:12 PM
>To: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: One last time (and then I give up....)
>
>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"
>