Re: Gossip Digest, Vol 40, Issue 1

Jeff,

As the moderator for the TYJP-L list, I am very concerned about the 
change in formatting from HTML to plain text.  For whatever reason, the 
Mail Archive is not presenting the text format of our newsletters 
correctly.  Specifically, the end of line characters are not being 
generated properly here.  I have compared your copy versus another 
"copy" (http://rtpnet.org/pipermail/tyjp-l/2006/000118.html) of our 
latest newsletter; you can see things are not quite correct here.  I 
have also reviewed the content of the text only portion of the eMail I 
sent out, and it looks correct, too.

I realize there are reasons for having the messages in text format as 
the default, but is there a way to tell the Mail Archive that for a 
given archive, we want HTML?  In other words, is there a keyword or 
something the various moderators can use to force Mail Archive to use 
the HTML instead of the default text?  Some of us spend a lot of time 
trying to ensure our HTML/EML is correct before we send it out.

As always, thank you so very much for your service and assistance!

Regards,
Michael Cohen
TYJP-L Moderator
TYJP President/Webmaster

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> Date: Thu, 16 Nov 2006 01:33:05 -0500
> From: "Jeff Breidenbach" <[email protected]>
> Subject: [Gossip] change in formatting
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> Hi all,
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> I've just installed the four hundred and sixteenth revision to
> The Mail Archive core software. That alone is kind of amazing.
> Anyway, this update may affect you if your list has HTML
> formatted messages.
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> In some but not all cases, HTML mail messages are also shipped
> with a plaintext version of the same message. This is for backwards
> compatibility with various mail user agents, and is codified
> with the miltipart/alternative mimetype.
>
> As of 5 minutes ago, I've instructed The Mail Archive to always
> prefer the plaintext version of a message whenever it has a
> choice. That may make some list archives a little less colorful
> or font-a-riffic. On the upside, this should reduce some problems
> when the HTML message is grievously corrupt. In particular,
> some YahooGroups lists recently started having very serious
> problems with sending invalid HTML messages - leading to
> blank archive pages.
>
> Anyway, that's what's going on and as always yell if there are
> any questions, concerns or problems.
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> Cheers,
> Jeff
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