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I am have this problem as well. Sometimes much more content comes through as code than text. There may be as many as 10000 lines for only a few lines of message text. Horrible to wade through. Within a single digest email there is a mix of "clean" messages and "coded" messages that include all the html formatting, and I receive other messages that include html-formatted content just fine, so I'm presuming the problem is not with the settings of my browser. I've also opened up coded messages (from a digest email) in Dreamweaver to look at them, and the code is often partially garbled and/or incomplete. So, something odd is happening to these messages as they are bundled into digest mode? It appears that this might be a MIME format issue with the person who is responding to a SCIART_L email from a browser not set to read/translate MIME format messages? I don't understand it enough to know what questions to ask. Britt, can you help with parsing this problem? Judy On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 1:00 AM, SCIART-L automatic digest system <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > There are 12 messages totalling 1256 lines in this issue. > > Topics of the day: > > 2. garbled messages > > Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 09:34:50 -0400 > From: Morgan-Scott <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: garbled messages > > I'm no computer expert, but I >think< what Maria and I are reporting is a > combination of some sort of computer glitch and the result of people > replying to the digest without "trimming." Hmm, by the way, it isn't one > particular person, it's almost everyone, so maybe it is some sort of glitch. > I always trim my replies here, but there is so much gibberish in between > messages that I can't even tell if my messages are full of gibberish or not. > > What I get is a readable message with heading, following by what I think is > the entire previous digest, or whatever digest the person is replying to, in > what I take to be html gibberish. When the digest is long, this can go on > for pages and pages, making it practically impossible to find the messages I > know are there, unless I scroll through for literally several minutes. So > sometimes I just delete the whole thing. > > best, Julia Morgan Scott > > Need to leave or subscribe to the Sciart-L listserv? Follow the instructions at > http://citnews.unl.edu/presentmethods_lana/listserv/index.html > > ------------------------------ > End of SCIART-L Digest - 4 May 2010 to 5 May 2010 (#2010-116) > ************************************************************* > -- Judith A. Stoffer, MA, CMI jStoffer Medical Illustration 4000 N Charles St #408 Baltimore, MD 21218 USA Phone: 443/676.8883 www.jStoffer.com judyATjStoffer.com When one tugs at a single thing in nature, he finds it attached to the rest of the world. -John Muir, naturalist, explorer, and writer (1838-1914) Need to leave or subscribe to the Sciart-L listserv? Follow the instructions at http://citnews.unl.edu/presentmethods_lana/listserv/index.html