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When a mail program quotes a message in a reply you might prefer it to use lots of pointies down the side, or to plonk it verbatim at the bottom. Maybe there are other designs that make sense too, but here's a method that has never occurred to me before: put the name and email address of the original's sender inside a big pile of misformatted ASCII-art boxes, followed by something similar to the content of the original message, except with a few null characters sprinkled in for good measure. Genius. The culprit looks to be one of these: X-Mailer: Lotus Notes Release 5.0.10 X-MIMETrack: Serialize by Router This wouldn't actually cause me a big problem, but our salesman couldn't open the message in Outlook, and our administrator couldn't edit the text in Gedit (it can't figure out what character encoding it's in, so it daren't let the user see it, in case it fries their brain Snow Crash stylee). Bloody email, hardly worth the trouble any more. -- --- Geoff Richards -------------><-------------- http://ungwe.org/ --- "I tried to fling my shadow at the moon, The while my blood leapt with a wordless song." -- Theodore Roethke
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