[Coco] Coco Digest, Vol 69, Issue 10

[Andrew]

> Message: 3
> Date: Fri, 06 Feb 2009 10:07:32 -0600
> From: Roger Taylor <operator at coco3.com>
> Subject: Re: [Coco] [Color Computer] Remove case yellowing
> To: CoCoList for Color Computer Enthusiasts <coco at maltedmedia.com>
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> Andrew,
> When you quoted Steven's message it didn't separate his original text 
> from your text.  What e-mailer are you using that doesn't use the 
> typical  > ,  | ,  or ]  character?

The reason why my response was messed up is many-fold. I receive the 
list in digest format, and I read it with Thunderbird (in the recent 
past, before mid-December 2008, I used Mozilla Mail).

I am not sure where the problem lies, but when I reply to the digest 
email of the list, Thunderbird "chops" the email off arbitrarily 
(generally just before the email I want to reply to - at least, that's 
how it seems to me!). So, for those messages, I have to do a cut-n-paste 
job. Usually, I will stick in the appropriate ">" symbol, but I must've 
forgot this time.

Some things I have noticed about this issue:

a. It happened when I used Mozilla Mail, and I had hoped that when I 
upgraded to Thunderbird, that it would go away, but it didn't.

b. When I read the email digest in Thunderbird, at certain points in the 
digest (it seems random - it isn't based on the length or number of 
bytes or anything), the email will go from regular color (black) to a 
different color (grey on my system). Sometimes, it will return back from 
grey to black, then back again. I am not saying it changes position or 
anything in the message as I read it, just that the long message has 
these blocks of different coloring. I don't know why it is like this.

c. I have noticed that when I reply, the message is "cut off" right at 
the point of the color change.

d. Viewing the source of the message (even in a hex editor) at the point 
of "transition", did not reveal anything special that I could see, 
compared to other digests (I save them), or to other areas in the text.

So - I don't know if this is a problem with Thunderbird/Mozilla, the 
digest, or what. I suspect my email reader, but I don't have any hard 
evidence to back that up. I read in HTML format, but the text of the 
digest comes through as ASCII text. I haven't been able to figure out 
whether this plays any part, either.

I've done a little bit of searching about the problem, but I haven't 
found much of anything about it. It doesn't seem to affect other emails 
I get, but then again the CoCo list is the only one I receive with such 
a high volume of messages creating a large digest email.

-- Andrew L. Ayers, Glendale, Arizona