This message, and almost all of BB's posts This message, and most of BB's message thread correctly for me. Curious. Alex On Thursday, October 27, 2011, <Bowerbird@aol.com> wrote:

the good alex said:

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Looking at BB's email, it's sent in both HTML and plain text.

yeah, the other alex is confused.

the reason the a.o.l. posts break the threads is because the return-headers are incorrect... (that terminology is vague because i refuse to crawl around the muck of the techno-jargon.)

the .html formatting is another issue entirely.

however, i _fully_agree_ legacy software sucks. how much time has the world wasted on i.e.6?

it's just that the _irony_ of this is so _delicious_ -- the people who say our e-books _should_ be in .html format and not plain-text are the same people who _bitch_ because my messages and e-mails are in .html format and not plain-text -- that i just can't resist rubbing their noses in it...

-bowerbird

p.s. the listserve software could also be smart, and put a post into its thread using the subject. it's just too bad it's not open-source software, so that someone could make that improvement.

(note for lee: yes, i _know_ it _is_ open-source. this kind of humor is called "irony" or "sarcasm". i am calling attention to the b.s. of technocrats.)

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