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Re: st: Re: Difficulty with posting and replying
Frank:
Martin uses the <> at the top of his messages because Stata FAQ 2.2
(see: http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/statalist.html#before )
states that the list server can sometimes "chop the first few lines"
of an email/posting. So, his <> symbol will be cut if any of the
server does remove the first line(s).
You've probably tried this, but if the email program you are using
(which according to your X-MAILER properties in your message is Apple
Mail (mail.app) 2.9) is attaching a signature to your outgoing mail,
this signature is html format. So, while you may be converting you
message to 'plain-text' before sending it on the mac (by highlighting
you message and pressing Shift+Command+T), your signature injects new
html code into your message as it leaves your computer.
(Remember that mail.app can be synching your signatures with your
mobile me account in the background (see Mail Menu>Preferences>
General Tab> Mobile Me... ) )
If this is not your problem, then there may be bigger issues:
1. what kind of text encoding are you using (see Message Menu>Text
Encoding)? You might try switching to utf-8 (which would get you to 8-
Bit encoding), right now your messages use are using mac's automatic
encoding (text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes) &
your content-encoding scheme is 7-bit. Your outgoing server
(smtp.mac.com) provides a content transfer method for encoding the
message (e.g., 7-bit, 8-bit, and binary methods), when SMTP transmits
data in 7-bit MIME defines how 8-bit data can be encoded in 7-bit
byte stream for transmission in SMTP. So, there may be something going
on with your outgoing server @mac.com that could be resolved by using
a 8-bit encoding, like utf-8.
2. It is likely that the mac.com SMTP server may be your own worst
enemy.
There are lots of reports of mobile me (mac.com) periodically dumping
messages from certain ISP's (especially after they've been tagged as
having some user sending out a lot of spam). I notice that your IP
address and your outgoing smtp relay (e.g., asmtp011.mac.com,
asmtp022.mac.com) have changed over the course of your email messages
to Statalist from April 24 to today. Are you noticing any patterns of
your Statalist postings being 'lost' when sending just from work or
home, etc? See this link for an interesting example of similar
messages being 'lost' and someways to test this using Terminal and
telnet( http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2008/03/09/1100 ).
If you go to the Mail Menu > Preferences > Viewing Pref. Tab and
choose "Show Header Detail = All" and then check the full headers of
your messages that made it through to Statalist versus the ones that
did not, that might help you diagnose the differences among these
messages. If you want to send me the output of the headers on your
unsuccessful headers, I can take a look & compare them to your recent
'successful' postings.
Good luck.
Eric
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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
[email protected]
Office: +979.845.6754
Fax: +979.845.0249
On May 2, 2009, at 7:53 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi Martin,
I was thinking maybe my dilemma involves copying and pasting text
(e.g., syntax). So I replied to your last message, pasted some text
from a message that I have been trying to post, and sent it. The
message did not post. So if this message gets posted, it may be the
copy and paste mechanism causing me difficulties. We will see.
Best,
Frank
On May 2, 2009, at 7:58 AM, Martin Weiss wrote:
<>
Nick`s advice http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/lwgate/STATALIST/archives/statalist.0904/Author/article-593.html
still applies, although I am aware how frustrating it can be
sometimes. Plain text-ing from the adress subscribed on Statalist
normally guarantees success...
HTH
Martin
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----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 1:51 PM
Subject: st: Difficulty with posting and replying
Hi All,
I am having difficulty posting and replying to posts: "It is a hit
or miss adventure." I format my posts and replies in plain text. I
am using a mac (Leopard OS). I hope this message posts. Does
anyone have suggestions? Thank you.
Best,
Frank
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