[vtkusers] Questions about using this mailing list

An Jiye an_jiye at hotmail.com
Wed Feb 18 01:12:04 EST 2004


>
> 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:
>
> http://vtk.org/cgi-bin/vtkfaq?req=show&file=faq01.010.htp
>
> 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. Also I have changed the settings to use Uuencode
instead of MIME when sending mails. Hope it works.


>
> 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.

>
> > [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==?=
> >
>

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".





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