Ron,

The problem with the symbols can be controlled by setting a command line to 
strip all such symbols from any message just like it will strip off any 
attached file to keep it from reaching the list.  I have had a Christian 
support group list on this same server as long as blind-hams has been here 
and no such symbols ever appear on my list.  icors.org was offered as an 
alternative for all those who used to have mailing list out of a New York 
school when it stopped supporting mailing lists.  List owners paid 20 
dollars each to get this free service started years ago and ListSoft offer 
the server space for free.  They haven't added any new lists since its 
creation, as far as I know, but it isn't icors.org that is the problem with 
the symbols.  They sure are a pain in the butt, though, and I only get rid 
of them in my own postings by replying to a symbol free clean blind-hams 
email message I am reading.  Even that seems odd to me but on my mailing 
list, called echurch-USA.org, no one has to change anything because my list 
is set to strip all symbols from any message being posted to the list.

Phil.
K0NX


Phil.




----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Ron Canazzi" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Friday, February 13, 2015 8:29 PM
Subject: Re: I am puzzled, please explain!


> Hi Lowell,
>
> Chalk this one up to the extremely erratic nature of this icors.org
> server.  It does not handle rich text/HTML formatted messages. Plain
> text (if your mail program supports it, usually eliminates the problem)
> but when you see so many people's messages full of equal signs and
> oddities with respect to 8 bit characters such as quotation marks,
> apostrophes and so on, this is the reason: antiquated server!
>
> Such are the issues with erratic delivery as well.  The moderators have
> at least set things up so that if you get unsubscribed that you
> automatically are resubscribed within a few minutes.
>
> I don't know how many times in the past year or so that I got the
> following 3 messages within about 10 minutes:
> 1.  You have been removed from the Blind Hams list because of too many
> bounces;
> 2.  You have been subscribed to the Blind Hams List (date/time given;)
> 3.  Welcome to the Blind Hams list.  Here are a few rules.... ETC.
>
> And so it goes with icors.org.
>
>
>
> On 2/13/2015 8:37 PM, Lowell Miller wrote:
>> O.K. I sent a message to the list this morning and got answers with in =
>> about 20 minutes.  That's good!
>> What I don't understand is that I never saw my message that I sent until 
>> =
>> 4 hours later.
>> In other words, how did others see my message when I did not for about 4 
>> =
>> hours later?  How can this be!
>> This may sound rather dumb but I don't get it!
>> Thanks!
>> Lowell  W8QIY
>>
>
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