john st.clair

Brian,

No, the cross-posting to comp.lang.logo is still being done the same
way. I just re-direct the messages from the LogoForum to the server at
MIT that posts the messages to comp.lang.logo. I haven't noticed any
problems reading messages on comp.lang.logo with my news reader. When
did this problem start to happen? How does this message appear?

-John

John St. Clair Global SchoolNet Foundation
john.stclair@verizon.net http://www.gsn.org
Vina Danks Middle School LogoForum moderator
Teacher of Logo and Lego groups.yahoo.com/group/logoforum

bh

John St.Clair <Use-Author-Address-Header@[127.1]> writes:


Your message looks fine. Some messages give a header like this example (it's
the last line that's important):

comp.lang.logo #20413 (1 more)
Date: Tue Oct 21 21:44:44 PDT 2003
Resent-Date: Tue, 21 Oct 2003 21:46:48 -0700
[1] Re: [LogoForum] High School Curriculum
Content-Type: multipart/alternative
Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v552)
From: Charley Settles <Use-Author-Address-Header@[127.1]>
Author-Address: csettles <AT> gis <DOT> net
Resent-To: mail2news_NOSPAM-20031021-comp.lang....on.lcs.mit.edu
Resent-Message-Id: <6.0.0.22.0.20031022004311.01adcdf0@pop.gis.net>
Resent-From: John St.Clair <john.stclair@verizon.net>
Organization: mail2news@nym.alias.net
Lines: 123
Process MIME article? [yn]

And then after I say Y I get something like this:

Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2003 00:44:44 -0400
Subject: Re: [LogoForum] High School Curriculum
From: Charley Settles <Use-Author-Address-Header@[127.1]>


---Executing: richtext

Hi Jerry,
Thanks for the pointer to Children Designers.
Charley

...


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_e_m_a_i_l_ _t_o_:
_L_o_g_o_F_o_r_u_m_-_u_n_s_u_b_s_c_r_i_b_e_@_y_a_h_o_o_g_r_o_u_p_s_._c _o_m
_L_o_g_o_F_o_r_u_m_ _m_e_s_s_a_g_e_s_ _a_r_e_ _a_r_c_h_i_v_e_d_ _a_t_:
_h_t_t_p_:_/_/_g_r_o_u_p_s_._y_a_h_o_o_._c_o_m_/_g_r_o_u_p_/_L_o_g_o_F_o_r_u_m

In this case the message body was okay (except that "richtext" doesn't do "more"
filtering, so it all zooms off the screen before I can read it) and it's only the
stuff at the end that has those underscores between characters, but sometimes the
entire message body looks like that.

The basic problem, I think, is that the text of the message is an attachment,
rather than just part of the main message text. Some news editor is using
attachments, and shouldn't. (It's one thing when someone deliberately attaches
a gif, or something like that -- I can just skip those. But here it's the
entire message that's attached.)