I would like to know how widespread this is. If you get some or all of the
digests delivered to you as attachments, would you please let me know by
email to the admin address
learning-org-approval@world.std.com
...AND... please mention the #'s of a couple of recent digests that have
came to you as attachments.
Explanations:
1. I set the trigger size for producing a digest at 25k characters, so
most digests are "one-msg" longer than 25k. Long msgs cause some mail
gateways to convert to attachment. For a while this was a problem at AOL.
If you've ALWAYS gotten some of the digests as attachments, this is
probably the reason.
2. Recently, there were some changes in the mail at my provider. This
changed something about msgs which include "special characters" (Non-US
vowels with accepts, curly quote marks, ellipsis, bullets, etc.). As a
result any digest including a msg which has such characters is sent with
headers
>Content-Type: text/plain; charset=unknown-8bit
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit
and some mail gateways convert these to attachments. For example, Digests
#2406 and #2407 had these headers and I know were a problem for some
readers. If you've noticed the "attachment" problem for some Digests for
the past few months, #2 is probably the reason.
This Digest mess is a frustration and doesn't yield to simple solutions
I've tried. I need to know how widespread is this problem before investing
more to fix it.
I believe regular (non-digest) subscribers are not experiencing this
"attachment" problem.
Thanks!
-=- Rick
p.s. for info about this Learning-org dialogue, the "Digest" option, and
all other admin matters, and our msg archive please see
http://www.learning-org.com
--Richard Karash ("Rick") | <http://world.std.com/~rkarash> Speaker, Facilitator, Trainer | mailto:Richard@Karash.com "Towards learning organizations" | Host for Learning-Org Discussion (617)227-0106, fax (617)523-3839 | <http://www.learning-org.com>
Learning-org -- Hosted by Rick Karash <rkarash@karash.com> Public Dialog on Learning Organizations -- <http://www.learning-org.com>