Anybody know what this message was supposed to say?

Robert McGrory robert.mcgrory at gmail.com
Tue Jun 18 15:43:34 CDT 2013


Something from the ARPANET era? (j/k)


On Tue, Jun 18, 2013 at 4:36 PM, Joseph S. Barrera III <joe at barrera.org>wrote:

> On 06/18/2013 01:19 PM, Krafft, John M. wrote:
>
>> We get messages (as part of the digest) like this occasionally; they
>> even get archived in this form. Since nobody ever complains, either
>> I'm the only one who gets garbage, or nobody else who gets it cares.
>> Sometimes I can figure out the subject (or read the original message
>> in clear) from a response, but not always.
>>
>
> Someone is sending in HTML-only email, it looks like. It's possible to
> decode it but it's better if everyone remembers to post either in plain
> text, or plain text + html.
>
> In most mail programs (except some very old Unix mail readers) it will be
> readable, but the digest software may only be looking for the (missing)
> plain text portion.
>
> - Joe
>
>


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