[Elecraft] k3-broadcast band reception

[David Woolley]

Ron D'Eau Claire wrote:
> Okay. Outlook just calls it "plain text" (no formatting for lines or fonts).
> It's a VERY common format and generally preferred since it allows the
> reader's computer do the wrapping. 
> 
> Looking at the QTH.NET archives, I see the same thing, but it's no longer
> the same format the e-mail sender posted. It's been converted and formatted
> in HTML for display in a web browser.
> 
> QTH.NET needs to fix how Mailman converts text to display in HTML with their
> browser frame.
> 

QTH.NET is behaving correctly if not pragmatically (so any pragmatic fix 
should allow an option for correct behaviour as well).

The real problem in this case appears to be the unofficial, nabble.com, 
  web gateway to the list, which really just acts a mail user agent when 
posting.  Whilst most GUI email clients have now corrected their over 
the wire formats so that plain text is physically wrapped when sent, it 
looks like it still has the problem with early GUI mail clients of 
thinking that newline is a paragraph, rather than line, delimiter.

Users of nabble might also like to know that the postings through nabble 
result in a weak spam score being applied by my ISP (I have about 15% of 
digests reach the full 5 score for being treated as spam, although that 
requires scores for several different reasons):

	0.2 WHOIS_MYPRIVREG        URL registered to myprivateregistration.com
	[URIs: nabble.com]

This appears to be a standard spamassassin rule, although the score may 
or may not be the default for that rule.

(Some of the spam scoring from the digest are the result of legitimate 
content looking like obfuscation, and are difficult to avoid, given the 
nature of the content - callsigns and component references).
-- 
David Woolley
Emails are not formal business letters, whatever businesses may want.
RFC1855 says there should be an address here, but, in a world of spam,
that is no longer good advice, as archive address hiding may not work.