Archives with encoding characters
Hello everyone,
I have a few (but not all) members complaining that their digests are full of coded characters. Two examples below were forwarded to me:
What I ended up doing was creating 2 "practice lines" in the centre of=20 our big teaching circle (I always teach new figures in a big circle) -=20 which each had 3 people set up in a line with generous space between,=20 and first=C2=A0 I walked through one of those lines myself starting first= =20
and
Robins pass Right=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0= =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Larks Loop L= eft
What is the cause? Is there anything I can do about it?
Thanks, Seth
I should add that they are both on Plain Text Digests. (People seemed to be unhappy with MIME digests, because they had to double click on each email to open it up. You couldn't just scroll through a long email.)
Seth
On Wed, Mar 4, 2020, at 4:55 PM, Seth Seeger wrote:
Hello everyone,
I have a few (but not all) members complaining that their digests are full of coded characters. Two examples below were forwarded to me:
What I ended up doing was creating 2 "practice lines" in the centre of=20 our big teaching circle (I always teach new figures in a big circle) -=20 which each had 3 people set up in a line with generous space between,=20 and first=C2=A0 I walked through one of those lines myself starting first= =20
and
Robins pass Right=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0= =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Larks Loop L= eft
What is the cause? Is there anything I can do about it?
Thanks, Seth
I see this a lot too.
I cannot confirm 100%, but anecdotally they all seem to be Mac Mail users.
- Mark
mark@pdc-racing.net | 408-348-2878
On Mar 4, 2020, at 9:56 AM, Seth Seeger <seth@tofutavern.com> wrote:
I should add that they are both on Plain Text Digests. (People seemed to be unhappy with MIME digests, because they had to double click on each email to open it up. You couldn't just scroll through a long email.)
Seth
On Wed, Mar 4, 2020, at 4:55 PM, Seth Seeger wrote:
Hello everyone,
I have a few (but not all) members complaining that their digests are full of coded characters. Two examples below were forwarded to me:
What I ended up doing was creating 2 "practice lines" in the centre of=20 our big teaching circle (I always teach new figures in a big circle) -=20 which each had 3 people set up in a line with generous space between,=20 and first=C2=A0 I walked through one of those lines myself starting first= =20
and
Robins pass Right=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0= =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Larks Loop L= eft
What is the cause? Is there anything I can do about it?
Thanks, Seth
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On 3/4/20 9:56 AM, Seth Seeger wrote:
I should add that they are both on Plain Text Digests. (People seemed to be unhappy with MIME digests, because they had to double click on each email to open it up. You couldn't just scroll through a long email.)
That depends on the MUA. Thinderbird for example displays the messages from a MIME digest inline.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On 3/4/20 8:55 AM, Seth Seeger wrote:
Hello everyone,
I have a few (but not all) members complaining that their digests are full of coded characters. Two examples below were forwarded to me:
What I ended up doing was creating 2 "practice lines" in the centre of=20 our big teaching circle (I always teach new figures in a big circle) -=20 which each had 3 people set up in a line with generous space between,=20 and first=C2=A0 I walked through one of those lines myself starting first= =20
and
Robins pass Right=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0= =C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0=C2=A0 Larks Loop L= eft
What is the cause? Is there anything I can do about it?
The cause is a quoted-printable encoded message body not being decoded. This may or may not be a Mailman bug, but if as Mark Dadgar suggests, it only happens with some MUAs, the issue might be in the MUA. To understand more we'd need to see the actual raw digest message from the list, or maybe just a raw incoming message that winds up like that in the digest.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
On Mar 4, 2020, at 1:31 PM, Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> wrote:
The cause is a quoted-printable encoded message body not being decoded. This may or may not be a Mailman bug, but if as Mark Dadgar suggests, it only happens with some MUAs, the issue might be in the MUA. To understand more we'd need to see the actual raw digest message from the list, or maybe just a raw incoming message that winds up like that in the digest.
How do I find the raw digest message? Do you mean asking the member to View Raw Message, and then copy and paste that to me?
Seth
On 3/4/20 1:00 PM, Seth Seeger wrote:
How do I find the raw digest message? Do you mean asking the member to View Raw Message, and then copy and paste that to me?
That would be one way. Or you could subscribe an address of your own to the plain text digest and view the raw message directly. Of course, you'd need to be sure the digest you're looking at is one that has the problem.
-- Mark Sapiro <mark@msapiro.net> The highway is for gamblers, San Francisco Bay Area, California better use your sense - B. Dylan
Mark Sapiro wrote:
The cause is a quoted-printable encoded message body not being decoded. This may or may not be a Mailman bug, ...
This is a Mailman bug. See <https://gitlab.com/mailman/mailman/-/issues/473>
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