[vtkusers] Questions about using this mailing list

[An Jiye]

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> You are right this is non-technical, but still *very* important for a mailing list (contents always comes with a certain presentation). They are some simple rules that were summarized by Prabhu here:
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> http://vtk.org/cgi-bin/vtkfaq?req=show&file=faq01.010.htp
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> Among them, one says that 'You shall send email in text format'. Otherwise as you noticed not all email clients are able to process them, and even our ML archiver is not able to parse them properly.

I have changed my Outlook setting to "send mail in text format". Now I am posting with Outlook. Hope it works.

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> I guess you should be able to configure Outlook express to send mail as text (instead of HTML). If not switch to mozilla/firebird/firefox/fire-fusion/fire-dash ;) and you'll be able to easily install chinese font set so you won't suffer from:

Since I work under a Chinese operation system, so the "chinese font set" mentioned should already been installed. But I still get the following web page from vtk's mailing list page. Of course, I can browse Chinese web pages properly.

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> > [vtkusers] VTK in Unicode   de Boer Ingo 
> >     [vtkusers] VTK in Unicode   Mathieu Malaterre 
> > [vtkusers] Re: Picking points from multiple surfaces.   Bruce Lamond 
> > [vtkusers] Re: Picking points from multiple surfaces.   
> > =?gb2312?B?sLIgvMzStQ==?= 
> > 
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Another thing, how to make my apply arranges righ after the original message? I found my reply was always treated as a new thread with a subject "[vtkusers] Re: xxx".