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(erielack) Walt vs. Sammy stories attachment

On Sat, 4 Aug 2007 andrisd_@_aol.com wrote:

> 
> I guess then, it's some of the best we have had in awhile.
> 
> I have tried to send the Walt v Sammy stories a couple times.
> I made the document a .txt file and attached and sent to the list
> I have not seen the emails with or without any attachmentor an error.
> Henry, what should I try next?
> 

Andy, I would need to know, within 3 days time, exactly when you sent it so I
can look at the debug output of the list processor to see exactly what was
attached and how it was attached. I haven't seen any of them either, but I
don't know when you sent them.

Because you are on AOL there are several potential problems when sending
files to the list. AOL is known to silently zip attachments, which causes them
to be discarded. This is particularly known to happen when attaching more than
one file in a single email. When sending mail with an attachment to the list,
only attach one file per email.  

AOL can have a funky message format when quoting other emails. I don't know
when or why it happens, but it can attach the quoted or forwarded emails as an
RFC 822 format attachment and not quoted plain ASCII text. RFC 822 is the
internet mail specification and is entirely redundant when forwarding or
quoting a previous email as it includes the entire header of the previous
email. We occasionally see that in listmails here when an entire email header
shows up in the body of a reply.

Another issue is the size of the text file you are trying to send. I don't
know how big this is, but if it covers many emails it may be larger than what
might be polite to send to all list members, that pesky list ettiquete thing
again. It is also possible that AOL will force zipping any attachments over a
certain size, I don't have AOL so I can't say how that all works there.  It
may be wiser to send it to Paul T for posting on the http://el-list.elhts.org
site. I hate to make more work for Paul, but I'm not sure that every list
member wants a monster blast of previously seen Walt stories in their inbox. I
don't mind, but we do seem to have a number of folks who are quick to
complain about things here.

Henry

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