Thanks Nick. Great "tip". Liam. YVR. > At 04:21 PM 2/20/2003 -0800, you wrote: > >Dear List: What is MIME? Can I turn it off? These MIME messages are > >always unreadable. > > MIME is a mail format. List members often post unintentionally in MIME > format; lots of mail clients like Eudora, Netscape, and Microsoft Lookout! > support it natively. You often receive it from people you get e-mail from. > Get a note with italics, bold, or funky fonts? It probably came in MIME > format! Even notes that look "normal" are wrapped in MIME for a variety of > legitimate reasons. > > The problem is, LISTSERV has a very old habit of stripping out "extra" mail > headers. Unfortunately, MIME interpretation depends on some mail headers > that LISTERV may thing are unnecessary. Fortunately, there's a setting you > can use to tell LISTSERV to send you all the headers. Just send an email to > listserv@listserv.cuny.edu with the command (in the body of the note, not > the subject): > > set airline fullhdr > > This should make your MIME traffic from the list appear like normal > messages. :-) > > >John > >SEA QX > > Nick Laflamme > ex-LISTSERV postmaster, nd.edu (1985-87, 1990-1995)