QUESTION:  I sometimes receive messages which have a message header shown in the
body of the message. Is there something I can do about on my end to prevent this
confusing gibberish from being displayed?  For examples of this problem see the
following.

http://liszt.bluemarble.net/read/SCRoots-L/[email protected]
http://liszt.bluemarble.net/read/SCRoots-L/[email protected]
http://liszt.bluemarble.net/read/SCRoots-L/[email protected]
http://liszt.bluemarble.net/read/SCRoots-L/[email protected]
http://liszt.bluemarble.net/read/SCRoots-L/[email protected]
http://liszt.bluemarble.net/read/SCRoots-L/[email protected]


RESPONSE:  This isn't caused by anything on your end of the line.  The confusing
mess is usually caused by the writer sending the message with an attachment. 
Rootsweb's email server converts text only attachments, including the header
information, from attachments into message body text.  

This most often happens when the sender "Forwards" a message as an attachment
rather than copying and pasting it into a new, clean message.  Apparently some
users (e.g. Web TV) can't forward messages any other way.  For more information
about this subject see the following archived messages.

http://www.liszt.com/read/SCRoots-L/[email protected]
http://www.liszt.com/read/SCRoots-L/[email protected]
http://www.liszt.com/read/SCRoots-L/[email protected]
http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/ifetch2?/u1/textindices/L/Listowners+1998+19623378117+F

Hope that helps,

Steve Coker
http://www.scroots.org/

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