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FJ - 26 Mar 2007 13:34 GMT

Some postings I receive have their subject lines altered with what appear to
be deleted whitespace between words, and then a tab character placed earlier
in the text.

Also I get postings with only the signature in the body, and the original
text in attachments ATT00181.txt and ATT00184.dat.

Are there any settings that would affect this behaviour? If not any
suggestion on newsreaders with OE's general ease of use but better handling
of these cases? The above generally occurs on the gmane mailing list /
newsreader gatway.

Thanks, Jeff

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Bruce Hagen - 26 Mar 2007 15:11 GMT

I have never seen this first hand, but this may explain the situation.

Outlook Express message appears blank and has an ATT000XX.txt or an
ATT000XX.htm attachment:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=312351

And from:
http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/decode.htm

Besides the problem described in this article with temporary files, Outlook
Express may have a blank message if Internet Explorer is set at View,
Encoding to Auto-Select. If so, disable the Auto-Select in Internet Explorer
and choose instead Western European (ISO). If your program has an option to
read HTML messages in Plain Text, the HTML version of the message may appear
as an ATT0001.HTM attachment (the number may vary).

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> Some postings I receive have their subject lines altered with what appear
> to be deleted whitespace between words, and then a tab character placed
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>
> Thanks, Jeff

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FJ - 30 Mar 2007 01:47 GMT

>> Some postings I receive have their subject lines altered with what
>> appear to be deleted whitespace between words, and then a tab
[quoted text clipped - 23 lines]
> version of the message may appear as an ATT0001.HTM attachment (the
> number may vary).

I've followed these steps and those in the links, and still have both the
problem mentioned in my original post. Any other ideas?

Thanks, Jeff

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Michael Santovec - 31 Mar 2007 02:44 GMT

It sounds like some other program is altering the posts before OE gets
them. Are you using any newsgroup proxy such as for handling yEnc
attachments?

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm

>>> Some postings I receive have their subject lines altered with what
>>> appear to be deleted whitespace between words, and then a tab
[quoted text clipped - 29 lines]
>
> Thanks, Jeff

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