[gui-talk] speaking of Dave Andrews and posts (was blankmessagesfrom this list)

[David Andrews]

If you are seeing extra header info, it is because your mail program 
is showing it to you, not because I am leaving it there.  The stuff I 
forward, press releases and the like, I almost always trim out any 
extraneous info at the top I can.


At 09:43 AM 11/22/2008, you wrote:
>LOL. You've put that very politely, so far as I'm concerned. I find slogging
>through the first set of headers and subject lines in posts like that a real
>annoyance. I keep trying to imagine why they arrive like that. I think,
>"Dave's posted in a normal way to this list many times, all by himself. Why
>did someone else have to forward this post for him as if he didn't have a
>subscription to this list or something? I usually have to force myself to
>keep arrowing down to see what sort of message it is. Sometimes, I confess,
>when I'm feeling really impatient or I have a bad headache or something, I
>just delete. No offense meant to Dave. But I give up trying to figure out
>what these things are. When I finally get to them, after all those headers
>and subject lines, they often seem like announcements or public relations
>statements, almost always about some event or product I'm not even concerned
>about, not actual messages from Dave.
>
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "tribble" <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
>To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 12:47 AM
>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] speaking of Dave Andrews and posts (was
>blankmessagesfrom this list)
>
>
>I've wondered that myself. It just adds more syllables to my already clogged
>stream of verbage from jaws... It would be nice if it were reduced a bit.
>Happy listening.
>--le
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Joel Deutsch" <jdeutsch at dslextreme.com>
>To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Sent: Saturday, November 22, 2008 12:22 AM
>Subject: [gui-talk] speaking of Dave Andrews and posts (was blank
>messagesfrom this list)
>
>
>could anyone explain why every time a list post appears that apparently
>originates from Dave, it arrives as some sort of forward sent by someone
>else? I'm not putting that too accurately, but I'd guess it's understood
>what I'm referring to. Anybody know why this is? How come these posts so
>often don't just appear as direct messages from Dave? I've never understood
>that. Thanks.
>guesws accuarlist
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Mike Freeman" <k7uij at panix.com>
>To: "NFBnet GUI Talk Mailing List" <gui-talk at nfbnet.org>
>Cc: "David Andrews" <dandrews at visi.com>
>Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 7:39 PM
>Subject: Re: [gui-talk] blank messages from this list
>
>
>There are sometimes incompatibilities between mail program settings and
>what the list software expects. It has to do with the vagaries of the
>way multipart/mixed messages are interpreted. Usually, if there's more
>than one attachment, one of them is the text.
>
>I've never quite gotten to the bottom of why this happens to some people
>on some lists but some have been able to correct the problem and perhaps
>David Andrews has a bit of a clue now.
>
>Mike
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "tribble" <lauraeaves at yahoo.com>
>To: "Multiple recipients of NFBnet GUI-TALK Mailing List"
><gui-talk at NFBnet.org>
>Sent: Friday, November 21, 2008 4:47 AM
>Subject: [gui-talk] blank messages from this list
>
>
>Hi all --
>Has anyone else been getting blank messages from this list? If someone
>is
>posting messages and isn't aware they are coming across blank, please
>check
>what is coming back when you post.  I looked at the message carefully
>and
>there was an attachment on it, which I thought might contain something,
>but
>it only had something that looked computer or list generated.
>Just wondering if there is a list problem.
>Cheers and happy thanksgiving.
>--le
>
>
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