Been there, done that..... it appears that Outlook Express defaults to HTML
for mail creation which causes all sorts of problems getting posts to this
group. Turn HTML off and the problem goes away.
Bob
-----Original Message-----
From: The Browns <thebrown@scci.net>
To: Bruce T. Clough <cloughbt@batman.flight.wpafb.af.mil>;
triumphs@autox.team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>
Date: Friday, October 24, 1997 11:15 AM
Subject: Re: Me and mindspring.com, very little, if any, LBC content
>I don't know what this problem is, but I had an interesting problem with
the
>Triumph list the other day. I just loaded MS Outlook Express on my
>computer, an it changed my mail sending format to HTML. The result was
that
>I could not get any messages through the server until I changed it back to
>Text format. After that everything was back to normal.
>D. Brown
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Bruce T. Clough <cloughbt@batman.flight.wpafb.af.mil>
>To: triumphs@autox.team.net <triumphs@autox.team.net>
>Date: Friday, October 24, 1997 9:14 AM
>Subject: Me and mindspring.com, very little, if any, LBC content
>
>
>>After I mentioned that I can't send anything to mindspring.com from my
>>workstation Chip Mautz sent:
>>
>>>hmm - interesting. I'm on mindspring.com, and have no problem getting
>>>loads of mail each day.
>>>
>>>Just wanted to let you know - if I don't hear back from you, well... :)
>>>
>>>Chip
>>
>>FYI - I did send a test message to chip and recieved this back from our
>>Mailer-Daemon:
>>
>>
>> ----- Transcript of session follows -----
>><<< HELO shadow.batmancity
>><<< MAIL From:<cloughbt@batman>
>><<< RCPT To:<cmautz@mindspring.com>
>><<< DATA
>><<< QUIT
>>Connected to mindspring.com:
>>>>> MAIL From:<cloughbt@batman.flight.wpafb.af.mil>
>><<< 550 Access denied
>>554 <cmautz@mindspring.com>... Remote protocol error
>>
>> ----- Unsent message follows -----
>>Return-Path: <cloughbt@batman>
>>Received: from shadow.batmancity by batman.flight.wpafb.af.mil
>(4.1/SMI-4.1)
>> id AA00988; Fri, 24 Oct 97 09:02:39 EDT
>>Received: by shadow.batmancity (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
>> id JAA28061; Fri, 24 Oct 1997 09:02:46 -0400
>>Date: Fri, 24 Oct 1997 09:02:46 -0400
>>From: cloughbt@batman (Bruce T. Clough)
>>Message-Id: <199710241302.JAA28061@shadow.batmancity>
>>To: cmautz@mindspring.com
>>Subject: Re: Attention Forrest Bridges
>>X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII
>>
>>Chip,
>>
>>Okay, here's a test.
>>
>>Bruce Clough
>>
>>-----------------------------------------------------------------
>>This happens everytime I try to communicate with someone on mindspring.
>>
>>What am I doing wrong?
>>
>>Why doesn't mindspring.com like me? Do I smell bad? Do I wear funny
>>clothes? Have I not killed enough chickens on the altar of technology?
>>Or is it my political views, ranging somewhere between Rush Limbaugh and
>>Fidel Castro depending on if I had my morning coffee? One wonders!
>>
>>At least our TRs still like me! Put both away for the winter yesterday
>>after driving them around awhile. Now I'm just stuck driving them boring
>>cars this winter.
>>
>>Communication Challenged Bruce Clough
>>
>
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