R help - Jun 2007 - Difficulties With Posting To Ongoing Threads on the R Mailing List

A number of people are having the same problem as me, when you post as
a response to an ongoing thread, in place of your message, the
following message appears:

An embedded & charset-unspecified text was scrubbed ...

and a link is given that leads to the desired message.

It's better than nothing , but it sure is annoying, and some readers
will skip it instead of doing the extra link. It's also annoying to
read a thread, when several posters , through no fault of their own,
get "scrubbed".

I always think of an e-mail as pure ASCII text, unless you add an attachment.
Is it possible that some e-mail hosts ( I use gmail ) embed binary
code into the e-mail?
Maybe the R mailing list software is reacting to that.

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On another note, I tryed posting on gmane, to add to the thread from
last week. It just disappeared , or maybe not, I don't know. Maybe
it's related to the one-time registration requirement for gmane.

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As far as I can tell, the above problem (scrubbing) does not occur
when you do a stand-alone post, not as a response to an ongoing
thread. Hope it stays that way!


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Have a nice day.

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you see immediately above the text entry area
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Plain Text mode.

On 6/13/07, Robert Wilkins <irishhacker at gmail.com>
wrote:
> A number of people are having the same problem as me, when you post as
> a response to an ongoing thread, in place of your message, the
> following message appears:
>
> An embedded & charset-unspecified text was scrubbed ...
>
> and a link is given that leads to the desired message.
>
> It's better than nothing , but it sure is annoying, and some readers
> will skip it instead of doing the extra link. It's also annoying to
> read a thread, when several posters , through no fault of their own,
> get "scrubbed".
>
> I always think of an e-mail as pure ASCII text, unless you add an
attachment.
> Is it possible that some e-mail hosts ( I use gmail ) embed binary
> code into the e-mail?
> Maybe the R mailing list software is reacting to that.
>
> **************************
>
> On another note, I tryed posting on gmane, to add to the thread from
> last week. It just disappeared , or maybe not, I don't know. Maybe
> it's related to the one-time registration requirement for gmane.
>
> *************************
>
> As far as I can tell, the above problem (scrubbing) does not occur
> when you do a stand-alone post, not as a response to an ongoing
> thread. Hope it stays that way!
>
>
> **************************
> Have a nice day.
>
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>