pynchon-l-digest V2 #6659

[Tim Ware]

I think your situation is understandable, Dave. What gets my tit is  
folks just not bothering to post in plain text, even after I rather  
politely ask that they do, explain why and offer to help, if needed.  
Most list-serves are very strict about this and folks adjust,  
understanding it's for the greater good. If you want to post in  
Hungarian, just know that for most readers it'll appear as  
gobbledygook, not to mention being opaque to all but likely the person  
who did the translation and maybe a couple others.

Cheers (as I await excoriation inevitable ;)

Tim

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On Feb 12, 2009, at 9:03 PM, Dave Monroe <against.the.dave at gmail.com>  
wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 10:59 PM, Tim Ware <tim at hyperarts.com> wrote:
>
>> Plain text will definely cure a post like the one I quoted.  
>> Basically,
>> diacriticals can only be rendered in rich text. I'm not quite sure  
>> why you'd
>> want to send a long post in Hungarian (or whatever it was) but  
>> future users
>> will find the plist archive almost useless due to the  large amount  
>> of junk
>> code. And it's got me about to bail (although I imagine that may be  
>> a relief
>> to this list ;)
>
> Well, again, it was (a) about a new GR translation (b) by one of our
> fellow (and/or lady) listers, no less, and (c) I prefer to post at
> leats any/all relevant text as who knows when it'll disappear along
> with its URL/webpage?  me, I actually poke around in the archives
> quite a bit, and so much has already been lost ...