Re: [PLUG] what is this format?

["William H. Magill" <magill@mcgillsociety.org>]

On Monday, October 7, 2002, at 01:05  PM, eric@lucii.org wrote:
> ------- begin excerpt -----
>
>       Constitution
>       =20
>      =20
> By JAY BOOKMAN=20
>
> The official story on Iraq has never made sense. The connection that 
> the =
> Bush administration has tried to draw between Iraq and al-Qaida has =
> always seemed contrived and artificial. In fact, it was hard to 
> believe =
> that smart people in the Bush administration would start a major war =

These artifacts are from Microsoft Mail processing. Either directly 
from Outlook (unusual), or via Microsoft Exchange (the most common 
source). They come from the conversion from Rich text Fromat (RTF) mail 
to SMTP (i.e. ASCII) format. They are actually products of a 
mis-configured sever, but the number of MSE who know how to configure 
the server correctly to talk to a non-Microsoft world are few and far 
between.

If I really care, I use emacs to clean them up... but usually the 
messages are just noise (aka spam), so I just delete them.

It is possible for the Outlook client to define ASCII as its default 
format instead of RTF, but that rarely happens, so it's left to the 
Exchange server to truncate the lines to 80 characters.

T.T.F.N.
William H. Magill
magill@mcgillsociety.org
magill@acm.org
magill@mac.com

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