RE: The new academic aristocracy

[Allan Edels <edels@msn.com>]

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David:
 
A recent (a few months ago?) upgrade of my provider's email set my default 
format to "Rich Text", but I was unaware of this default change.  Since your 
message has let me know that apparently I've been sending messages to the DML 
in this format instead the one intended, I must now make sure that I change the 
default to "Plain Text".  This message should be received by one and all 
without difficulty.
 
Here's the last email that I sent:
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Quote from a NY Times article (5/30/2006):  "Scientists are also wary about 
letting a spacecraft throw away information before humans get to sift through 
it. They often joke about a rover obliviously driving past a dinosaur bone 
lying on the Martian surface because it had been programmed torecognize only 
rocks.Intelligent Beings in Space! - New York Times 05/30/2006 05:49 
PMhttp://www.nytimes.com/2006/05/30/science/space/30rock.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&pagewanted=all
 Page 4 of 5"  
 
Also see: http://dml.cmnh.org/2001May/msg00507.html     
 
As I received this message, I received another one titled "Re: NEW Alien 
Technologyþ" - something about "Meditation Manifestation". SPAM.   
 
Later,   Allan E.   
 
> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:33:26 +1100> From: dannj@alphalink.com.au> To: 
> dinosaur@usc.edu> Subject: Re: dino bones in space - was it a PR thing?>> On 
> Fri, Oct 23rd, 2009 at 4:25 AM, Erik Boehm <erikboehm07@yahoo.com> wrote:>>> 
> ...Or perhaps a frozen dino mummy in one of those craters suspected of having 
> ice in it on the>> moon...>>>... And using the dino DNA as a plot device 
> somehow>> I seem to vaguely recall mention of a book or movie that used a 
> similar plot device (dinosaur> tissue being found preserved on the moon).>> 
> --> _____________________________________________________________>> Dann 
> Pigdon> GIS / Archaeologist Australian Dinosaurs> Melbourne, Australia 
> http://home.alphalink.com.au/~dannj> 
> _____________________________________________________________>  
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Thanks for letting me know.
 
Allan Edels
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> Date: Fri, 23 Oct 2009 12:40:54 +0200
> From: david.marjanovic@gmx.at
> To: dinosaur@usc.edu
> Subject: Re: The new academic aristocracy
>
>> In the shiny digital future, the new academic aristocracy will be
>> made up of those who know how to send plain-text email.
>>
>> The good news is, YOU can join!
>>
>> Folks, please. It's not that hard.
>
> What _is_ hard is to find out that other people only get to see the
> "truncated" message, because programs capable of sending
> not-absolutely-plain text are also capable of receiving them and
> displaying the text instead of the "truncated" message -- unless you
> actually send HTML and only HTML, you can always read your own messages
> without problems.
>
> I used to think there's only one kind of plain text. That's not the
> case. I wonder if some e-mail programs or websites are even capable of
> sending text so plain it doesn't get truncated by the listserv.
>
> In the last 12 hours, Khamber Heslin, Michael Erickson, Allan Edels, and
> Bruce Woollatt have sent messages that claim to be "Content-Type:
> text/plain" but were nonetheless truncated.                                   
>