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Re: st: Re: Difficulty with posting and replying
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"> Martin uses the <> at the top of his messages because Stata FAQ 2.2
(see: http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/statalist.html#before )
states that the list server can sometimes "chop the first few lines" "
True, I used to put a sentence there, but the "<>" is much less intrusive. I
do not recall the last incident where it was needed, though...
HTH
Martin
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Eric A. Booth" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 4:47 PM
Subject: Re: st: Re: Difficulty with posting and replying
Frank:
Martin uses the <> at the top of his messages because Stata FAQ 2.2
(see: http://www.stata.com/support/faqs/res/statalist.html#before )
states that the list server can sometimes "chop the first few lines" of
an email/posting. So, his <> symbol will be cut if any of the server
does remove the first line(s).
You've probably tried this, but if the email program you are using (which
according to your X-MAILER properties in your message is Apple Mail
(mail.app) 2.9) is attaching a signature to your outgoing mail, this
signature is html format. So, while you may be converting you message to
'plain-text' before sending it on the mac (by highlighting you message
and pressing Shift+Command+T), your signature injects new html code into
your message as it leaves your computer.
(Remember that mail.app can be synching your signatures with your mobile
me account in the background (see Mail Menu>Preferences> General Tab>
Mobile Me... ) )
If this is not your problem, then there may be bigger issues:
1. what kind of text encoding are you using (see Message Menu>Text
Encoding)? You might try switching to utf-8 (which would get you to 8-
Bit encoding), right now your messages use are using mac's automatic
encoding (text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes) & your
content-encoding scheme is 7-bit. Your outgoing server (smtp.mac.com)
provides a content transfer method for encoding the message (e.g.,
7-bit, 8-bit, and binary methods), when SMTP transmits data in 7-bit
MIME defines how 8-bit data can be encoded in 7-bit byte stream for
transmission in SMTP. So, there may be something going on with your
outgoing server @mac.com that could be resolved by using a 8-bit
encoding, like utf-8.
2. It is likely that the mac.com SMTP server may be your own worst
enemy.
There are lots of reports of mobile me (mac.com) periodically dumping
messages from certain ISP's (especially after they've been tagged as
having some user sending out a lot of spam). I notice that your IP
address and your outgoing smtp relay (e.g., asmtp011.mac.com,
asmtp022.mac.com) have changed over the course of your email messages to
Statalist from April 24 to today. Are you noticing any patterns of your
Statalist postings being 'lost' when sending just from work or home, etc?
See this link for an interesting example of similar messages being 'lost'
and someways to test this using Terminal and telnet(
http://the.taoofmac.com/space/blog/2008/03/09/1100 ).
If you go to the Mail Menu > Preferences > Viewing Pref. Tab and choose
"Show Header Detail = All" and then check the full headers of your
messages that made it through to Statalist versus the ones that did not,
that might help you diagnose the differences among these messages. If
you want to send me the output of the headers on your unsuccessful
headers, I can take a look & compare them to your recent 'successful'
postings.
Good luck.
Eric
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Eric A. Booth
Public Policy Research Institute
Texas A&M University
[email protected]
Office: +979.845.6754
Fax: +979.845.0249
On May 2, 2009, at 7:53 AM, [email protected] wrote:
Hi Martin,
I was thinking maybe my dilemma involves copying and pasting text (e.g.,
syntax). So I replied to your last message, pasted some text from a
message that I have been trying to post, and sent it. The message did
not post. So if this message gets posted, it may be the copy and paste
mechanism causing me difficulties. We will see.
Best,
Frank
On May 2, 2009, at 7:58 AM, Martin Weiss wrote:
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Nick`s advice
http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/lwgate/STATALIST/archives/statalist.0904/Author/article-593.html
still applies, although I am aware how frustrating it can be sometimes.
Plain text-ing from the adress subscribed on Statalist normally
guarantees success...
HTH
Martin
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----- Original Message ----- From: <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Saturday, May 02, 2009 1:51 PM
Subject: st: Difficulty with posting and replying
Hi All,
I am having difficulty posting and replying to posts: "It is a hit or
miss adventure." I format my posts and replies in plain text. I am
using a mac (Leopard OS). I hope this message posts. Does anyone have
suggestions? Thank you.
Best,
Frank
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