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Subject:Re: Double Entries
From:Andrew Grebneff
Date:Sat, 20 Jan 2001 01:17:47 +1200

>Hi all. I think I have solved a little problem that someone had thought was
>a virus. This is when a message gets printed in plain text, and then printed
>again with all kinds of crap added to it. I had sent some messages that had
>this happen to them, then I checked my "format" and founjd that it was
>encodeing for "Rich Text (HTML)". I changed this to "Plain Text", and voila!
>no more message doubling!
>
>Set your e-mail encoding for plain text, and the problem goes away!

Quite a few people are sending the same message twice deliberately; once to
the list and once to the intended recipient. This is a little annoying and
totally unnecessary.

Andrew Grebneff
Dunedin, New Zealand
VW & mollusc nut
1984 VW Type 25 Caravelle (currently SVX engine; waiting for a Porsche trans)
1985 Mitsubishi Galant Sigma 2.0 (FWD), for sale
1986 CE80 Toyota Corolla 1.8DX diesel (extaxi)
1989 CE96 Toyota Corolla 1.8DX diesel wagon
1989 CT170 Toyota Corona Select 2.0 diesel (taxi)