[hpsdr] why are my messages being bounced as 'too big'?

[Mike]

I get the same sort of messages, mixed in with the straight text only type.
It seems to be consistent with which senders I get the message body as
attachments and those that I get the straight text from.

Mike G. 


>  
> 
> I've used various versions of Outlook for years.  Quite a few of the
messages I
> receive from the hpsdr list arrive with no body text at all except for the
tag line
> ("***** High Performance Software Defined Radio Discussion List *****.")
Instead,
> there are three attached files, two .txt files and an .htm.
> 
> In the case of Chris Albertson's most recent reply, for instance, these
attachments
> show up as "Untitled attachment 00296.txt (2KB)," "Untitled attachment
00299.htm
> (2KB)," and "Untitled attachment 00302.txt (418 B)."
> In order to read these messages, I have to open one of the attachments
manually -
> - either the first .txt attachment or the equivalent .htm
> attachment.   These have the same textual content.  The third .txt
> attachment just contains the standard footer with posting/subscription
instructions.
> 
> I have a hard time believing that this particular nonstandard behavior is
"M$
> Outrook"'s fault, because it doesn't affect any other of the dozens of
> mailing lists I read.   More likely, the list manager is using some sort
of
> unusual configuration option that could be fixed if the admin(s) were
aware of it.
> Unfortunately because I've never seen it happen elsewhere I don't know
what to
> suggest.  It's not really that big a headache from my perspective, but
perhaps the
> same issue is causing other problems for other users.
> 
> -- john, KE5FX
> 
> 
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