I'm sure that it's not anybody's "hide headers" option in their email
client.
I've already written privately to John to try to troubleshoot this with
him. The moderation system shows us the original headers on messages in a
way that many users' email programs do not, so I was able to see that the
problem was in the way John's messages arrive to the list server.
John's original posts arrive at the server with two blank lines between
some initial headers and the later headers. Since the email standards (RFCs
821-823) interprest a blank line as marking the end of the headers, the
later headers get treated by your email client program as part of the body,
and displayed.
This seems to have started about a week ago. I don't know whether the
culprit is his email client, his antivirus package, or his ISP, but it's
probably one of the three, or some interaction between them.
If the problem turns out to be in Eudora 5.1 or in Avast! antivirus, then
its cause and solution are legitimate subjects for PCSOFT. If it's with
Verizon's email relaying, then perhaps it belongs on PCBUILD as a
connectivity issue.
Please understand that the subject of this thread is a bug,
misconfiguration, or incompatibility in some software and/or services, and
not John himself or the content of his messages.
David Gillett
On 25 Jan 2004 at 8:47, lkuzyk wrote:
> I have used an e-mail account where if you didn't select the "hide
> headers" option then information similar to that in John Dent's posts become
> part of each post......... this may be the same situation.
>
> Linda Kuzyk
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Ian" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Saturday, January 24, 2004 7:59 PM
> Subject: [PCSOFT] John Dent's posts - no subject and odd header
>
>
> Does anyone know why John Dent's posts arrive with no subject and the
> following (typical) heading?
>
> <snip>
> X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1
> Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2004 20:32:17 -0800
> To: PCSOFT - Personal Computer software discussion list
> <[log in to unmask]>
> From: John Dent <[log in to unmask]>
> Subject: Re: [PCSOFT] Finding basic system data
> In-Reply-To: <000801c3e206$a1b9dee0$e7d9e341@oemcomputer>
> Mime-Version: 1.0
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed
> X-Antivirus: avast! (VPS 1/23/2004), Outbound message
> X-Antivirus-Status: Clean
> <snip>
>
> Or is just me who's seeing them this way?
>
> Ian Porter
> Computer Guys Inc.
> Arrowtown
> New Zealand
> [log in to unmask]
>
> The NOSPIN Group
> http://freepctech.com
>
> PCSOFT's List Owner's:
> Bob Wright<[log in to unmask]>
> Drew Dunn<[log in to unmask]>
>
> "Hold No Punches.." Rode brings you great shareware/freeware
> programs with his honest opinions in this weekly column.
> http://freepctech.com/rode
Curious about the people moderating your
messages? Visit our staff web site:
http://freepctech.com/staff.shtml
|
