Boy, it will be nice when we get back to talking about Canadian milk
and CSS files...

Hopefully as a mild reassurance to you, Ellen, the digest coming from
the new list server is probably MIME attachments, which is just one of
a couple of ways that list serving programs produce digests. We've
heard from the Blueworld staff member responsible for making the
changes that his first priority was to get the mail moving again, and
the next priority was to re-establish the name and address of the
senders (which has now happened).

This list, and the others hosted by Blueworld block someone from
submitting attachments - as a protection against viruses (virii ?). The
attachments you get from the list would be pretty clean - since they
are generated by the list program and not sent on from someone else. If
you set up a filter or rule in your email program to send DW list
digests to their own folder, you could be confident that those
attachments would be safe to open.

Now, depending on your email program, those attachments are easier or
harder to read. Actually my old Eudora handled MIME digest attachments
very easily and made it easy for me to walk through them.

Depending on the capability of Blueworld's new list server, and
feedback from the list members, they may be able to switch back to the
old style you're more comfortable with.

Moral of the story - take a breather for a day or two and see what
happens, rather than making a quick decision to leave.

....Doug Gentry

On Thursday, April 24, 2003, at 02:08 PM, Ellen Faretis wrote:

> As a lurker and learner as opposed to being a contributor, I don't
> feel I
> should complain about the changes to the list, but I will be sad to
> leave.
> I've picked up some great tips from everyone, but with all the input
> being
> sent as attachments, I'm going to have to unsubscribe. I depend on
> e-mail
> for my business and I have a few rules about opening attachments. I'm
> sure
> no one would knowingly pass on a virus, but I'm not willing to take
> that
> chance.

---
Doug Gentry
Saint Mary's College
Dynapolis
p: 510.654.1837 / f: 510.654.3706
doug@dynapolis.com


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