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<div>Hello Group-</div>
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<div>I am a new administrator for a Mailman list which has been set up
at the University of California, Irvine, to run a jazz discussion
list. The original list ran using ezmlm software, but the server
was hacked severely in January. Attempts to get ezmlm running
again were unsuccessful and the programmer responsible for setting us
up chose to go with Mailman -- which I find to be an excellent
alternative, much more user friendly with great features like the web
interface and automatic archiving of messages.</div>
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<div>Some of our members who are subscribed in the digest mode are
having problems.</div>
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<div>Here is a sample complaint:</div>
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<div>"Is anyone else experiencing the inconvenience of having to
download the jwc<br>
digest and then having to unzip the mime coded attachment to be
downloaded? <br>
One winds up with a series individual files, each of which has to be
opened<br>
to read the individual message. I think possibly this may
happening only to</div>
<div>AOL users. It started after we came back to the UCI system
a few days ago."</div>
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<div>and another non aol user:</div>
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<div><font size="-1">"I subscribed to the digest, but rather than
getting a packet of messages, I get a bundle of attachments. If I want
to read the messages, I have to open the attachments one by one,
hardly the convenience a digest should produce. What am I doing
wrong?"</font></div>
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<div>I double checked and the digest preference is set to "plain
text", and not mime.</div>
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<div>I have also noticed that the same message received as an
individual post appears in the digest mode with lots of html type code
cluttering the message. Does this stem from the individual
sending the message and how they have their email software
configured?</div>
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<div>Regards-</div>
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<div>Jim Harrod</div>
<div>Jazz West Coast List Moderator</div>
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