On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 06:25 PM, David Mueller wrote: > On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 06:17 PM, Steven Catron wrote: >> Off-topic, but are you replying to the message from Tyler I've copied >> at >> the bottom? > > Since the subject lines are the same I assume so. Though my email > program (Mac OS X Mail) was able to display it just fine. I don't know > why yours couldn't, the best I can think of is that the encoding and > character set used (base64/UTF-8) is for some reason not able to be > properly understood by your computer. David, It's not that computers/mail programs can't understand various MIME encodings, it's that LISTSERV strips the MIME headers so that information about the beginning and end of encoded portions, the type of the content, and the name and parameters of the actual encoding, are all missing. In short, you just can't reliably send messages through LISTSERV that are not plain, unencoded text. Even quoted-printable encodings are munged, so you get a lot of "=A" and "=20" at the end of lines. I am running Mac OS X Mail as well, but all I got was the encoded gibberish. My default character set is set to ISO Latin-1 instead of UTF-8, however. Given the limitations of LISTSERV and mail programs, though, I think it's important for people to make sure to send unencoded plain text only to the AIRLINE list. -- Michael C. Berch mcb@postmodern.com