Re: What's causing this?

[Martin Rowe <martin@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Wednesday 22 August 2001 2:54 pm, Jeff Crosby wrote:
> I have started getting the following in some (not all) of my emails:
> > This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
> > --
> > [ Picked text/plain from multipart/alternative ]
>
> This is happening on various mailing lists that I'm on and just started
> within the last 2-3 weeks.  I have made no changes in my Netscape
> Messenger setup, so I don't know why this is happening.  Does anyone
> else know?
>
> --
> -Jeff

Hi Jeff

It seems to be a feature of the Mailman list manager software David is
migrating the lists to. Effectively it's stripping out the html from
multipart messages, leaving just the plain text (as per the posting rules). I
don't know how it's affecting those on digest mode (should be a big
improvement), but I certainly appreciate it - much shorter messages and no
html tags to wade through. A number of posts to the Security400 list show it
too. Messages posted in plain text won't have it, just those sent in html
(which usually involves a plain text copy too).

Regards, Martin
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