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

[Glenn Thomas]

This looks like text that includes newlines that has been re-wrapped to 
a shorter line length. It's been years since I've seen it though...

73 de Glenn


On 8/1/2012 9:13 AM, Mike wrote:
> 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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