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--