Re: what's the problem?

["Daniel L. MacIsaac" <Dan.MacIsaac@NAU.EDU>]

John,

Please both post and directly send me a short test MIME.  I will try
and decode it, then see what the LISTSERV program is doing to it if anything.

Dan M

Dan MacIsaac, Assistant Professor of Physics and Astronomy, Northern AZ Univ
danmac@nau.edu    http://www.phy.nau.edu/~danmac     PHYS-L list owner

> I think the new listserv is stripping off an important header from
> MIME-encoded messages. It's not just the digests that are affected; the
> individual messages are also mangled, to use Ludwik's term. Without the
> header, even modern mailers such as Eudora Pro or Outlook cannot display the
> lines properly.
>
> Dan? Can you check into this?
>
> JEG
>
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: phys-l@lists.nau.edu: Forum for Physics Educators
> > [mailto:PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU]On Behalf Of Phil Parker
> > Sent: Tuesday, December 15, 1998 12:56 PM
> > To: PHYS-L@LISTS.NAU.EDU
> > Subject: what's the problem?
> >
> >
> > The last two digests have been full of things like this:
> >
> > This geometric dependence of R (i.e. R being proportional to L/A^2) i=
> > s
> > inconsistent with that of electrical resistance in a uniform conducti=
> > ng
> > wire which is instead proportional to L/A.  The reason for this
> > difference of behavior is that in the case of electrical resistance t=
> > he
> > dissipation is a bulk effect caused by carrier scattering throughout =
> > the
> >
> > and much worse, with residues of high-bit characters and bizarre word-
> > wrappings across lines.  What are y'all doing?
> >
> > ---------------------------------------------
> > Phil Parker        pparker@twsuvm.uc.twsu.edu
> > Random quote for this second:
> >  The rung of a ladder was never meant to rest upon,
> >  but only to hold a man's foot long enough to put the other
> >  somewhat higher.---Thomas Huxley