I received this message on the side. What is MIME format? I never heard of it. I received the message black on white. Please educate me. thanks. Lou Jordy GorAdams@aol.com wrote: > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > --part0_904544174_boundary > Content-ID: <0_904544174@inet_out.mail.aol.com.1> > Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII > > Bob, > You or your server did it again!. Your response sent to me, is being forwarded > back to you. It, also, is black printing on dark purple background, and in > MIME format (I think). > Before reading your response, I had already drafted the message below, which I > am going to paste in here: > > Mr. Cooper: > Did you originate the e-mail being forwarded below? It is in MIME format, > multi-part. I'm asking you, since you show up as FROM: in the headings at the > bottom. > It showed up in my mailbox from VABOTETO-L@rootsweb.com maillist, with black > printing on very dark purple, and almost impossible to read. I B&W printed it > out B&W OK, but it is full of what I assume is MIME coding; that makes it > difficult to follow the original message amongst all the coding. > If you did not originate the message, can you tell who did? > I get several messages like this a week, and usually just delete them. This > one annoyed me in particular; I decided to find out who sends such messages, > why they do it, and, hopefully, to get them to send no more like it. > I responded by forwarding it to the sender and to VABOTETO-L; have had several > responses from subscribers of the latter. Have had some interesting responses: > 1. Most agree it is the original sender's fault; > 2. One said MIME format is not allowed by the maillist, and should have been > bounced back to the sender, which it was not. > 3. One blamed it on my server, AOL, and said I should chew AOL out about it. > 4. Several said the message I had forwarded to them via VABOTETOT-L > maillist, was also black on blue, and in MIME format. They were just as > annoyed with it as I was. Point: it is NOT my screen color gun, as you > suggested. The problem is at YOUR or YOUR server's end, not ours. I receive > about 150 e-mails a day, and yours are the only ones like this. > > End of pasted message; continuing on with my thoughts: > Suggestion; you might send a test message to several recipients, and ask if > they have the same problem. One of these should be to VABOTETO-L@rootsweb.com, > since the latter may be the cause of the problem. > Are you sure you are not causing the problem. I have no idea how to send a > message in MIME format, but you might unknowingly be doing it. > Whatever you find out, I'd appreciate hearing it, for my own education. In > this way, if I receive another like it from someone else, I'd like to help > them out by telling them what they or their server are doing wrong. > Gordon Adams: GorAdams@aol.com > > --part0_904544174_boundary > Content-ID: <0_904544174@inet_out.mail.prodigy.net.2> > Content-type: message/rfc822 > Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit > Content-disposition: inline > > Return-Path: <C.R.COOPER@prodigy.net> > Received: from rly-zc01.mx.aol.com (rly-zc01.mail.aol.com [172.31.33.1]) by > air-zc04.mail.aol.com (v49.1) with SMTP; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 10:35:17 > -0400 > Received: from pimout3-int.prodigy.net (pimout3-ext.prodigy.net > [207.115.59.211]) > by rly-zc01.mx.aol.com (8.8.8/8.8.5/AOL-4.0.0) > with ESMTP id KAA15486 for <GorAdams@aol.com>; > Sun, 30 Aug 1998 10:35:16 -0400 (EDT) > Received: from c.r.coop (slip-32-100-98-205.tx.us.ibm.net [32.100.98.205]) > by pimout3-int.prodigy.net (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id KAA63558 > for <GorAdams@aol.com>; Sun, 30 Aug 1998 10:33:33 -0400 > From: "Carroll R Cooper" <C.R.COOPER@prodigy.net> > To: <GorAdams@aol.com> > Subject: Problems > Date: Sun, 30 Aug 1998 09:43:54 -0500 > Message-ID: <01bdd424$9c4942c0$cd626420@c.r.coop> > X-Priority: 3 > X-MSMail-Priority: Normal > X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.71.1712.3 > X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.71.1712.3 > Mime-Version: 1.0 > Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-transfer-encoding: quoted-printable > > Hello Gordon, > I cannot tell you how that message was put into MIME ,It must have been = > done > by the server. As far as your screen having a purple background > periodically,It may be possible that one of the color guns in your screen = > is > sticking once in a while. I do'nt really know. Sorry, > = > > Carroll {Bob} Cooper > > -------------------- > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> > <HTML> > <HEAD> > > <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 http-equiv=3DContent-Type> > <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.71.1712.3"' name=3DGENERATOR> > </HEAD> > <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> > <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2>Hello Gordon,</FONT></DIV> > <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 size=3D2> I cannot tell you how that mess= > age was > put into MIME ,It must have been done by the server. As far as your screen= > > having a purple background periodically,It may be possible that one of the > color > guns in your screen is sticking once in a while. I do'nt really know. > Sorry,</FONT></DIV> > <DIV><FONT color=3D#000000 > size=3D2>  = > ;  > ; &= > nbsp > ; &= > nbsp > ; &= > nbsp > ; &= > nbsp > ; &= > nbsp > ; > Carroll {Bob} Cooper</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> > > --part0_904544174_boundary-- > > ==== VABOTETO Mailing List ==== > Planning a Family Reunion? Post your schedule at URL: > http://members.aol.com/camorrison/vareunio/reunion.htm