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From: "Diana Gale Matthiesen" <>
Subject: Re: [LO] email software madness - technical explanation
Date: Sat, 10 Jan 2009 04:55:30 -0500
References: <E624F14C40604C3EA90675D7CD3D8EBD@HP> <20091102596.192643@jve-home>
In-Reply-To: <20091102596.192643@jve-home>


Yes, it became clear that the problem was the way RootsWeb was converting
RTF/HTML messages to plain text because once the subscriber switched to Plain
Text, the problem went away. I have no expectation that the problem will be
fixed on the RootsWeb end. It just needs to be pounded into subscribers heads
that they should always post to mailing lists in Plain Text.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: On Behalf Of John Van Essen
> Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 3:59 AM
> To:
> Subject: Re: [LO] email software madness - technical explanation
>
> On Thu, 8 Jan 2009, Diana Gale Matthiesen <> wrote:
> > Does anyone know what email software is doing this and how
> to fix it? I mean,
> > packing the message and reply all together with no
> "carriage returns," like
> > this:
>
> [ example snipped ]
>
> I reported this to the helpdesk on Feb 23 2008 [Incident:
> 080224-000646]:
> <SNIP>

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