On Tuesday, January 15, 2002, at 06:48 PM, Michael C. Berch wrote: > 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. Several years ago, I changed my header settings to FULLHDR instead of the default which strips out some of the header lines. Also I have it set to receive messages in MIME format, I don't know what the defaults are. To select FULLHDR, send the command: CHANGE AIRLINE FULLHDR To select MIME, send the command: SET AIRLINE MIME As with all listserv commands, they go to listserv@listserv.cuny.edu (not airline@listserv.cuny.edu), and go in the body of the email message. You can send both commands at once, just put a return between each command. Please let me know if this appears to fix the problems; if it does it seems like something I should add to the FAQ. -- David Mueller / SAN kawika42@mac.com http://www.quanterium.com *** Read the Airline List FAQ at http://airlinefaq.tripod.com ***