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Re: your mail

The message below is unreadable. Can somone explain why it
came out line this?

On Mon, 12 Apr 1999 08:51:42 -0600 "James H. Head"
<HeadJH.dfp@USAFA.AF.MIL> writes:
>This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
>
>------=_NextPart_000_0001_01BE84C1.B05EF400
>Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset="iso-8859-1"
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>
>SET PHYS-L NOMIME
>
>
>------=_NextPart_000_0001_01BE84C1.B05EF400
>Content-Type: text/html;
> charset="iso-8859-1"
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
><!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN">
><HTML>
><HEAD>
><META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; =
>charset=3Diso-8859-1">


oops, I just sent in an explanation regarding content-type. But in
this original message I see that the content-type (text/html) is set
correctly for the subsequent html.

The issue seems to be the MIME encoding. Some e-mail clients do not
properly interpret MIME, but even if they do, it does not necessarily
mean that the endpoint e-mail client(s) are at fault. Sometimes my
e-mail client sees MIME attachments correctly, sometimes not. But
since I never change my e-mail settings with respect to MIME, I have
always assumed that the message is munged along the way.


Stefan Jeglinski