[ale] unreadable digests

[Dow Hurst]

James,
Wonderful your on the list!  Your problem probably lies with the email 
reader your using.  It may not be configured to wrap lines to fit your 
window.  The mail client people use to send mail and the mail client 
people use to read mail plus the servers passing the mail all can have 
an effect on the final delivered product you look at.  Try seeing if 
your mail client has a button to turn on automatic line wrapping.  One 
major difference between MS based machines and Unix machines is that the 
end of a line is defined differently.  A linux box uses a single 
linefeed while a DOS box uses a carriage return and a linefeed, IIRC.  
So, that might be part of the problem.  I hope someone more knowleagable 
about email can post an answer.  Tell what email program you use and try 
to see if you can get Mozilla mail or Evolution to work for you on your 
Linux machine as well.

The reply about not posting html is because many on the list use command 
line mail clients like mutt or pine.  They are fast and convenient but 
don't do html.  So your email will look just about unreadable in those 
circumstances.  Sometimes html mail will get truncated.  Using 8bit 
encoding and sending a "plain" text email is the most friendly to list 
servers like ALE.org.  When sending a friend a attached binary is when 
MIME encoding can help.  Both standards are good for particular purposes.

Feel free to ask questions about your new Linux box!  I know there are 
many in your position now, on the learning curve.  So let us know how it 
goes,
Dow


James W. Mash wrote:

>  
> Hi. Im new to Linux and this list.  I'll be lurking ;) ...  one 
> thing..  3 of the last 4 ale digests received were just jumbled up 
> text, no endlines...  impossible to read.  B4 that, seems like 1 out 
> of every 4 arrives that way.  Strangely, the majority are fine.  What 
> can I do to fix this problem on my end, or is it something out of my 
> control.  I view the mail on my windows machine ( =( hehe, i just 
> installed my first LInux Box ( redhat 9.0 ) and sharing my dsl but NOT 
> reading my mail yet ) ..  It just seems odd, that most digests are 
> fine, but many are unreadable jumbled text.  Thanks for anyhelp on this,
>  
> James
>  
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