[hpsdr] Scrubbed html attachments in digest

Thu Apr 9 14:57:28 PDT 2009

Attention list members who post messages in non-ASCII plain text format:

Want your thoughts and ideas read by everyone?  Then take heed and 
switch your email program to plain text... many are missing what you 
have to say!!!

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: Scrubbed html attachmentsin digest
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 2009 16:45:43 -0500
From: Don AE5K <don at ae5k.us>
Organization: AE5K
To: (ID withheld)
CC:

xxxxx wrote:
> HI,
>   I normally just read the list digest ( for HPSDR and Flex)  and from 
> time to time I run into a message like the one from Tom Clark in today 
> digest..  It seems he may be responding with just HTML which is replaced 
> by a link in the digest..  When I attempt to read the link with 
> firefox/thunderbird, the link is opened but the html is not interpreted 
> so I see a lot of html coding stuff  mixed in with Tom's text..
> Readable but with effort..
> 
> Any ideas what I might need to do to ??
> 
> Xxxxx, xxxxx
> 

[this is what Tom's message looked like in the "digest"]
>> An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
>> URL: 
>> <http://lists.hpsdr.org/pipermail/hpsdr-hpsdr.org/attachments/20090409/286ed3f3/attachment.html> 

Hi Xxxxx,

I get the same thing!  Strange.  I also tried saving the html file and
open it independently, same results.  Looking in the file with an editor
  (kate under linux) I see the first statement is <html> and 2nd is the
doctype but when I open with the browser, these two are transposed.

Even though I write a lot of stuff in html, I don't see why my browser
(iceape) does not recognize the file as html !!!

To answer your question directly -- no, nothing can be done on the
reflector itself except reject all non-plain-ascii messages or try to
herd cats into not sending fancy text.

Maybe someone can come up with the reason our browsers are not
recognizing the file as legitimate html.  I will repeat the contents of
this communication on the reflector (omitting your ID for privacy).

73,
Don AE5K

Discussion list / Reflector owners/moderators have for years been 
telling list members to post messages ONLY in plain ASCII text.  Many 
many reasons for doing so.  Now you can see from the above, one more reason.

Don, AE5K