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Re: error message question
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lugnet.admin.general
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Sun, 13 Jun 1999 03:18:38 GMT
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Hi!
Yea! It worked. I had no idea I was doing a no-no :-)
Thanks for the help!
Julie
Sproaticus wrote:
>
> dkrenz wrote:
> > I have a question about an error I sometimes get when I try to post a
> > response to a message.
> > "news NNTP error occured
> > cannot accept HTML/MIME encoded messages"
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> A hunch -- you have your mail/nntp client set up to send messages in HTML
> (bad client! naughty client! :-) This is generally not polite to do,
> since the majority of people reading this, and the majority of bots handling
> this, expect plain text and plain text only. Unfortunately, this is enabled
> by default in Communicator.
>
> > I use Netscape Communicator.
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> I'm using version 4.5. I'm guessing that your version is pretty close, if
> not the same.
>
> Try this: Go to the "Edit" menu, select "Preferences", choose "Formatting"
> on the left-hand panel, and in the right-hand panel, select both "Use the
> plain text editor to compose messages" and "Convert the message into plain
> text".
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> Let me know if this workd for you.
>
> Cheers,
> - jsproat
>
> --
> Jeremy H. Sproat <jsproat@geocities.com>
> http://www.geocities.com/SiliconValley/Horizon/5249/
> Darth Maul Lives
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