"Garbage" misunderstood

[Eric Van Tassel 101233.342@xxxxxxxx]

On 24-9-97, Rene v.R. misread an earlier posting of mine: I referred not to
"garbagey characterS" [plural] but to "the garbagey character [singular] of
incoming e-mails ..."

Below is a literal Forward of Rene's reply to me: what I was/am complaining
about is the lines beginning "Sender: owner-..." and ending
"X-Listprocessor-..." This block is apparently a feature of Compuserve's
mail system, when dealing with incoming messages from outside C'serve: it
doesn't appear on "internal" messages which I receive direct from another
C'serve subscriber.  C'serve's tech.support people aren't very helpful:
I've just been told that's the way it is.

Perhaps I shouldn't have posted my complaint, since the answer is obvious:
find another access provider. But apart from the fact that C'serve is the
cheapest I've found, I like certain features of its system -- the relative
ease of reading 50 or so incoming messages each day, and the speed with
which I can transfer incoming e-mail from C'serve's "In-basket" to other
text-file directories on my hard drive, thence to be read and edited in
XyWrite.

I apologize for wasting everyone's time with my complaint.

Eric Van Tassel

---------- Forwarded Message ----------

From:  INTERNET:xywrite@xxxxxxxx,
INTERNET:xywrite@xxxxxxxx
TO:   XyWrite_mailing_list, INTERNET:xywrite@xxxxxxxx
DATE:  24/09/97 8:41 AM

RE:   "Garbagey characters" (was Re: View114

Sender: owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx
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Date: Wed, 24 Sep 1997 21:39:17 +0900 (JST)
Reply-To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Sender: owner-xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Precedence: bulk
From: rrr@xxxxxxxx (Rene von Rentzell)
To: xywrite@xxxxxxxx
Subject: "Garbagey characters" (was Re: View114
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
X-Sender: rrr@xxxxxxxx
X-Mailer: 
X-Listprocessor-Version: 8.1 -- ListProcessor(tm) by CREN


>(I have no interest in HTML, but might this deal with the garbagey
>character of incoming e-mails which I want to save as XY text files?)
>Eric Van Tassel

What exactly do you mean by garbagey characters? If you are more
specific, I'm sure there is a solution.

-- Rene  
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