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Re: Mime encoded messages?
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lugnet.admin.general
Date: 
Fri, 21 Jan 2000 19:57:39 GMT
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John Neal wrote:

Todd Lehman wrote:

In lugnet.admin.general, John Neal writes:
Todd-

Sometimes when I create a link I get a "mime encoded" message and I
cannot post.  What, exactly, does this mean?  What confuses me is that
is appears to be random; these are never binary links, but normal URL
say to ebay for instance.

Confused in Brickland,
John

MIME stands for Multi-part Internet Mail Exchange (or something to that
effect, I forget exactly what).  If it's refusing to accept your message,
you must accidentally be posting it with a 'Content-Type:' header of
'multipart/mixed' or 'multipart/alternative' or equivalent.  Check your
newsreader settings and make sure that it's saying always to send messages
as plaintext, never as HTML or MIME.

Ah.  I thought that if I sent messages in plaintext only, I wouldn't be able
to hyperlink.  I'll try it.

-John

Okay, thanks, Todd.  It worked, although I'm not sure why because I have sent
mixed types before.  Sometimes I am prompted whether I want to send mixed,
sometimes I'm not.  Even when I have indicated that I do want to send mixed, it
has worked as well.  But I don't care.  It works now:-)

-John





--Todd



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(...) Ah. I thought that if I sent messages in plaintext only, I wouldn't be able to hyperlink. I'll try it. -John (...) (25 years ago, 21-Jan-00, to lugnet.admin.general)

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