[amsat-bb] Emails from AMSAT Website

[John Brier]

I don't mind sticking with the email list. We have web forums if you need
to do fancy formatting:

https://forums.qrz.com/index.php?forums/satellite-and-space-communications.69/

I believe recently someone had trouble formatting something here so they
posted it there and linked to it from here. It happens so infrequently I
don't think it's worth the change.

I have amsat-bb go straight to my inbox unfiltered because I like to stay
up on AMSAT activities. I also have notifications on the QRZ satellite
forum, but I have to leave my email app on my phone to do anything with it,
and the web interface isn't great on mobile IIRC. Email is simple and easy.

They each have their merits.

73, John Brier KG4AKV

On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 7:49 PM, Ken M <va7kbm at outlook.com> wrote:

> Hello all,
>
> These and many other email issues are why, IMHO, the current old-style
> AMSAT mailing list should be converted to a more modern web-based forum
> that can be organized by topic.
>
> 73 Ken VA7KBM
>
> On May 29, 2018, at 2:28 PM, Zach Metzinger <zmetzing at pobox.com<mailto:zme
> tzing at pobox.com>> wrote:
>
> On 05/29/18 16:33, Vince Fiscus, KB7ADL wrote:
> And just as a side note, when the email issue is solved, another
> re-look at why some messages come through with no CR or line feeds.
> (ie. formatting)
>
> Hello Vince,
>
> This is likely a side-effect of the MIME processing in your email
> client. Mike's email was base64 encoded and sent to the list by
> Thunderbird 52.8.0 (from headers).
>
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8"; Format="flowed"
> <...>
> TWUgdG9vLCBObyByZXBseSEKCk1pa2UsIEFCOVYKCgpPbiA1LzI5LzIwMTgg
> MTU6MjYgUE0sIFNj
> b3R0IHdyb3RlOgo+IFRoYW5rcyBmb3IgdGhlIGluZm8sIF
> BhdWwhCj4KPiBBcyBhIGNoZWNrLCBJ
> IHRyaWVkIHRvIGxvZyBpbiBhbmQgbXkgY3VycmVudCBwYXNzd29yZCB3YXMg
> bm90IGFjY2VwdGVk
> Lgo+Cj4gSSBjbGlja2VkIHRoZSBQYXNzd29yZCBSZXNldCBidXR0b24gYW5kIGl0
> IGluZGljYXRl
>
> This "line noise" is reconstituted into his email message at your end
> and laid out on your screen by your email program.
>
> Mike's email shows up just fine for me in Thunderbird 45.5.1 and Mutt
> 1.7.1 (2016-10-04).
>
> Have you tried looking at his message using your provider's web mail
> interface? Does it look correct there?
>
> --- Zach
> N0ZGO
>
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