Apples to Oranges

[Kim Malo]

At 05:05 PM 5/8/2006, Eric Albert wrote:
>For me, the formatting of Egg's posts vary.  Some, like the one 
>above, appear to be one long run-on paragraph, and are quite hard to read.

Yup, most are like that, but the one I thanked her on was fine. First 
one in a long time.

>It could be that, for some readers, all of her messages look 
>well-formatted.  I can imagine that the above message includes, for 
>example, line-feeds between lines (rather than the carriage-return 
>line-feeds that my system expects), and so on.  (My mailer is Eudora 
>7.0.1, on Windows XP Pro, a pretty standard program.)

Ditto, except XP home and I do have all HTML turned off in Eudoral, 
including using microsoft viewer, to foil tracking cookies, etc, 
which I always assume has something to do with any anomalies, and may 
have something to do with why most of mine are messed up where you 
say most of yours are fine..

>I quickly checked messages for this year (What?  You don't keep 
>complete archives for the Celtics Mailing List?), and this has been 
>going on since at least January 28, 2006, "Re: A few quick thoughts 
>while sipping coffee".  (I didn't check last year's message; it may 
>have been going on much longer.)

Nope, it hasn't been, which is the only reason I said something - 
something clearly changed. Since Egg says she didn't do anything, 
probably and not for the first time something AOL themselves did that 
is not friendly to other systems, although I don't have the same 
problem with Harry's posts and he uses AOL too. He uses a different 
mailer when I expand the headers though.

Sorry to bore everyone with the geek stuff and thanks to Eric for the 
further info. I'll slink off to set up my new scanner and leave you 
all to talk trades to your hearts' content in peace while my back is 
turned...<g>
Kim