[dms-discuss] Fw: The results of your email commands

[Sarah Schrupp]

May have discovered problem.  Sent information to:
 "discuss-owner at lists.davismakerspace.org" <discuss-owner at lists.davismakerspace.org>
Should have sent to:
discuss at davismakerspace.org <discuss at davismakerspace.org>;


I guess the first one is the listserv manager?  Which is the one that my email decided to keep in the recall address list.  My bad.

________________________________
 From: Mike Schrupp <mschrupp at comcast.net>
To: Sarah Schrupp <svschrupp at sbcglobal.net> 
Sent: Monday, April 14, 2014 12:30 PM
Subject: Re: Fw: The results of your email commands
 


Not sure the context of this:

There appear to be three concatenated attachments, some of which
    have embedded formatting and some which don't.
It's not clear whether some have been mailed and returned.

I'll note that the various mail programs embed formatting and some
    strip formatting. It's not clear to me whether this is done at the
    client end - in the recipient's computer-  or whether at the server
    level - like the Microsoft Exchange Server.

Some examples:

When Jim was using Eudora - the pre 2006 version before open source
    Eudora - everything was stripped and when he responded, the returned
    original was in courier with the hard returns added to fit his
    display every 40 characters or so. Was that Eudora or Yolo.com?

When I was using Outlook Express, it used a (selectable) text editor
    to spell check, specify a font and soft wrap the lines. Since it was
    embedded in XP, it defaulted to Word if installed and I think
    Notepad if not.

I note that Thunderbird - a Eudora successor - allows me to use a
    text editor or hypertext. I'm not sure of the difference and never
    tried to look at the code.
You might recall text editors (Word?) embedding ^Bbold^B and hypertext <bold>bold</bold>. Clearly one's not going to reliably read the other.

I also notice that the new (despised) Yahoo Mail format strings
    previous messages together in novel and infuriating ways. I think
    Opera did that as well. Was a dumb fad. Anyway, the formatting is
    effed in the process.
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