Yahoo Groups archive

The Logic Off Topic list

Index last updated: 2026-04-28 23:27 UTC

Thread

Re: [L-OT] question to admins

Re: [L-OT] question to admins

2002-09-27 by Alexis Aiosa

Admins,

> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

I have noticed that this statement appears on my posts, yet I am 
totally unaware of what "Non-text portions" that were added to these 
emails I send in.  Most of what is in my sent box, actually does end at 
my name, no carriage returns or anything after that.  So, what is that 
appears there?

It is actually annoying to have this be so consistent, yet not know 
what it is?  LOL.

Peace,
Alexis

Re: [L-OT] question to admins

2002-09-27 by Jeremy Martin

> Admins,

What? You mean we're actually good for something?? :-) Believe it or not, we do quite a bit behind the scenes besides being "mothers of prevention".. Trimming up poorly quoted emails (you have no idea how many times we've saved the LUG from seeing an entire 25-message digest quoted just to add 2 lines of text), preventing spammers, helping people having problems misc problems, e.g. subscribing/unsubscribing etc.. Being "censors" is a very small (yet still useful and important) part of what we do. 

> > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
> 
> I have noticed that this statement appears on my posts, yet 
> I am totally unaware of what "Non-text portions" that were 
> added to these emails I send in.  Most of what is in my 
> sent box, actually does end at my name, no carriage returns 
> or anything after that.  So, what is that appears there?

Yahoo Groups automatically adds that line -- the admins are not doing it. Actually we often delete that line from the bottom of messages as a lot of emails say that.. But when we are busy with other things sometimes we don't have time to edit it out. 

> It is actually annoying to have this be so consistent, yet 
> not know what it is?  LOL.

Are you sending plain text emails? Switching from HTML to Plain Text would probably fix this. I'm not sure exactly what non-text-text is being sent but I've seen that message a lot, but I bet it has something to do with sending non-plain-text messages. 

You might send yourself an email (so the non-text part won't be removed by Yahoo) and open it up in a very simple text editor (e.g. notepad in Windows) and look for any strange characters that might show up. Feel free to send me (sadus@...) a test message and I can try looking at it in Notepad if you don't see anything odd on your Mac. 

Jeremy Martin; sadus@...
http://www.carrollsweb.com/sadus

Re: [L-OT] question to admins

2002-09-28 by David Eager

On Saturday, September 28, 2002, at 01:41 AM, Jeremy Martin wrote:

> > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
> Yahoo Groups automatically adds that line -- the admins are not doing 
> it.

>  I'm not sure exactly what non-text-text is being sent but I've seen 
> that message a lot, but I bet it has something to do with sending 
> non-plain-text messages.

I think it is to do with not deleting the original yahoo banner ad from 
a message being replied to.

I'll just try sending another reply where I don't remove the original 
banner.


Dave Eager


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: [L-OT] question to admins

2002-09-28 by David Eager

If I bottom quote, and don't take notice of the yahoo banner. Does this 
do it ?

On Saturday, September 28, 2002, at 01:41 AM, Jeremy Martin wrote:

>  I'm not sure exactly what non-text-text is being sent but I've seen 
> that message a lot, but I bet it has something to do with sending 
> non-plain-text messages.
>
> You might send yourself an email (so the non-text part won't be 
> removed by Yahoo) and open it up in a very simple text editor (e.g. 
> notepad in Windows) and look for any strange characters that might 
> show up. Feel free to send me (sadus@...) a test message and I 
> can try looking at it in Notepad if you don't see anything odd on your 
> Mac.
>
> Jeremy Martin; sadus@...
> http://www.carrollsweb.com/sadus
>
>
<image.tiff>
>
>
> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to the Yahoo! Terms of Service.

[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: [L-OT] question to admins

2002-09-28 by David Eager

On Saturday, September 28, 2002, at 06:14 PM, David Eager wrote:

>
> I'll just try sending another reply where I don't remove the original
> banner.
>
>
> Dave Eager
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]
>
>

eek, that disproves my theory. I'm sure I deleted the banner on this 
one.


[Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

Re: [L-OT] question to admins

2002-09-28 by David Eager

On Saturday, September 28, 2002, at 06:18 PM, David Eager wrote:

> eek, that disproves my theory. I'm sure I deleted the banner on this
> one.
>
>
> [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]

OK, in apple mail [OSX]  the program adds this to the bottom:

--Apple-Mail-2--940894213--

maybe this is what is removed, or it could be rich text formatting.

Also, I just disabled the preference to reply in the same message 
format.

Let's see if that eliminates the non-text.

Dave Eager

Re: [L-OT] question to admins

2002-09-28 by David Eager

On Saturday, September 28, 2002, at 06:31 PM, David Eager wrote:

> I just disabled the preference to reply in the same message
> format.
>
> Let's see if that eliminates the non-text.

So that did it.
Make sure your mail application is not set to match the format of the 
incoming message, even if you are set to plain text.

Dave Eager

Move to quarantaine

This moves the raw source file on disk only. The archive index is not changed automatically, so you still need to run a manual refresh afterward.