The problem is three-fold:1) "afarke@gmail.com" broke the Dino-list rules and sent an e-mail containing formatted text, not a plain-text e-mail
However, gmail, being a well-behaved and sensible e-mail source, includes an alternative version of "afarke" message, as plain text (text/plain), which is actually just what the dino-list wants...
2) the dino-list list-processor zaps the formatted portion into a plain-text "REMAINDER OF MESSAGE TRUNCATED". The Dino-list list-processor is old software, and it in turn now breaks the rules for e-mail attachments, by just writing this as a text/plain section without regard for the fact that it is duplicating the text/plain headers.
3) various e-mail clients read the message with 2 "identical" (except to humans) text/plain sections, and are free to choose arbitrarily how to display this: to show only the first (original gmail section), only the second "MESSAGE TRUNCATED" (list-processor replacement), or to show both.
Thunderbird e-mail client consistently chooses to show only the 2nd "duplicate".
The software developer of Thunderbird are apparently unreceptive to the idea of "breaking" their program (as it obeys the rules) to, say, showing both sections, or the first; they instead advise that the list-processor software be "fixed" to work properly... but it is old, and is what we are stuck with.
David Marjanovic wrote:
afarke@gmail.com wrote:* * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ---REMAINDER OF MESSAGE TRUNCATED--- * * This post contains a forbidden message format * * (such as an attached file, a v-card, HTML formatting) * * This Mail List at USC.EDU only accepts PLAIN TEXT * * If your postings display this message your mail program * * is not set to send PLAIN TEXT ONLY and needs adjusting * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * *That was the entire e-mail.But then I remembered that I now have to use Thunderbird because Outlook Express seems incapable of dealing with the size of my inbox. Knowing that the "truncated" message is attached to the e-mail rather than replacing it, and having noticed that the number of "truncated" errors seems to have drastically increased since I had to switch to Thunderbird, I had a look at the source text... which reads (header not shown):--0016367b6cb4c05f5e04732c8a88 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed; delsp=yes On Sep 9, 2009 1:27pm, "Richard W. Travsky" <rtravsky@uwyo.edu> wrote: > On Tue, 8 Sep 2009, afarke@gmail.com wrote: >> > Well, yes, it actually is as opposed to "proprietary" or "closed" > > dinosaurs! The great majority of paleontology research isn't transparent > > until the moment of publication (and sometimes not even then). . .so, > > we're trying to change that!> > So no more embargoes or WFTP?In the case of the Open Dinosaur Project, that is correct. We want the whole thing to be open and available from Day 1. . .in fact, you can even download the current dataset, and analyze it yourself! (although we do ask that folks hold off on their own publications based around the data set until we've had a chance to get our first pub out). Preliminary results will be discussed on the blog, etc. So, no embargoes and no WFTP!Andy --0016367b6cb4c05f5e04732c8a88 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * ---REMAINDER OF MESSAGE TRUNCATED--- * * This post contains a forbidden message format * * (such as an attached file, a v-card, HTML formatting) * * This Mail List at USC.EDU only accepts PLAIN TEXT * * If your postings display this message your mail program * * is not set to send PLAIN TEXT ONLY and needs adjusting * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * * --0016367b6cb4c05f5e04732c8a88--Maybe "format=flowed" (in the second line) is the problem._However_, all messages by Luis Oscar Romero contain nothing but the "truncated" message, even in the source text.
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