pynchon-l-digest V2 #7708

[kelber at mindspring.com]

I unsubscribed from the digest years ago, preferring to receive p-list e-mails (which arrive garbage-free) in my regular e-mail inbox.  I can figure out which ones are p-list posts from either the sender or the heading.  I guess occasionally I might miss a post from an unfamiliar poster with a spam-ish heading, but so be it.  You could also set up an e-mail address just for p-list postings.

Laura

-----Original Message-----
>From: Robin Landseadel <robinlandseadel at comcast.net>
>Sent: Sep 8, 2010 7:33 PM
>To: "Krafft, John M." <krafftjm at muohio.edu>
>Cc: pynchon-l at waste.org
>Subject: Re: pynchon-l-digest V2 #7708
>
>On Sep 8, 2010, at 4:07 PM, Krafft, John M. wrote:
>
>> Are other people getting messages like the one below? It came to me  
>> as part of a digest, and I wondered whether others got it as an  
>> individual message. I didn't check the archive this time, but when  
>> I've gotten garbage (that's a technical term, not a critical  
>> judgment) like this before and checked, I've found the same thing  
>> there. But nobody ever seems to comment about it on list, and no  
>> sender who has not managed to communicate (presumably) ever seems to  
>> post a retry. So what's going on? (Is the lack of response or self- 
>> correction a sign that people aren't really trying to communicate  
>> here? Hey, that would explain ... ) And how much longer do we have  
>> to limp along with network software that isn't up to the job? I'd be  
>> happy to chip in for an upgrade, but nobody seems able (willing?) to  
>> do anything.
>>
>> John
>
>Dear John [doesn't that sound awful?],
>
>It appears that there is some sort of problem here, a problem that is  
>not solved by sending the E-Mails in plain text.
>
>I've noticed that the names of the senders are stripped from the  
>Digest, but not the archives. I've also noticed that a number of my  
>posts land on the digest with inexplicable garbage, I.E. -- not the  
>garbage I intended to send.
>
>Is small joke, very small . . .
>
>I suspect what we have here is system software that is too old to  
>handle modern text messaging.
>
>The reason why you haven't seen a full-scale revolt from regular list  
>members is that the messages we receive via regular E-Mail are  
>perfectly OK, at least as regards HTML garbage.
>
>
>
>