Re: [OT-LIST] Unsupported character sets

On Fri, 19 Feb 1999 09:10:19 -0500, "Izenberg, Noam" writes:
>Roughly 1/4 to 1/3 of the FT list digests I receive arrive as
>attachments rather than email texts because the "message uses a
>character set that is not supported by the Internet Service." I'm not
>sure whether this is afailing of my mail in particular or not, but I
>realize it almost always and almost only happens whenever discussion of
>Rot Hafen comes up. I think the umlaut over the O makes my mailer
choke.
>
>If I'm the only person this happens to, then I'll deal with it. If this
>happens to others, may I ask, Los and others, that you try Rot (and
>other words) without the Umlaut or other accent marks a few times as a
>test? I, for one, would really appreciate it. 
>

I've seen this before, and a lot of times it happen because people are
posting in html ot other MIME types.  So let me state this again:

Please send only straight ascii email to the list.  No mime, no
attachments, etc.

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