On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 11:29:45 -0500, Mark Lloyd
wrote:


On Sun, 18 Apr 2010 01:40:20 -0400, mm
wrote:

[snip]


My reader (Agent) didn't show an attachment, but does show an un usual
sig separator instead of the normal "-- ". Also, the message included
HTML, which is not desirable for newsgroup posts.

Interesting. My reader (Agent 1.93) did show the unusual sig separator
but iddn't show the sig, even though it does show html sigs sometimes,
or maybe only security sigs (are they the same as html)

It's been a long time since I used that old version. The current
version of Agent (v6) shows the word "signature" with a box around it.
Enabling the HTML viewer adds fake shadows to the box. Note that the
box DOES NOT contain the sig, only the word "signature".

I don't know if this is because I have an old reader (I don't
especially think so) or because Agent has loads of settings, far more
than any other news reader, and maybe I have settings set that just
make his post look like any post, except for the sig.

I got no light yellow, but I did see a mention of "orange" in the raw
message.

I didn't get at all the message that started this discussion, but I
looked at Jack's reply to me and looked at the raw message, and see no
mention of orange or anything else unusual.

The following is what I see in the raw message, as a signatu

--WebTV-Mail-4447-3732
Content-Description: signature
Content-Disposition: Inline
Content-Type: Text/HTML; Charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit

html body text =orange font color=black /html

On the one post I got from Jack I got nothing like that. Here's all
of what I got. It has nothing for signature. Maybe he didn't use a
signature on the 16th at 18:57:54 ?? Check it out Jack. If you
didn't the sig is the reaosn I don't get your posts.

Path:
feeder.eternal-september.org!eternal-september.org!news.glorb.com!news2.glorb.com!newsf eed-3001.bay.webtv.net!newssorter-3001.bay.webtv.net!not-for-mail
From: (Jack)
Newsgroups: alt.home.repair
Subject: New scam?
Date: Fri, 16 Apr 2010 18:57:54 -0400
Organization: WebTV Subscriber
Lines: 14
Message-ID:
References:
NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.webtv.net
Mime-Version: 1.0 (WebTV)
Content-Type: Text/Plain; Charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit
X-WebTV-Signatu 1

ETAtAhUAlHtl4SHkYBx5ZZcZrtc8UpZYeHUCFElB8Atj44QPUP 2s2K/ZiMCykJQq
Content-Disposition: Inline

Jack wrote:

I am not going to change anything for one jerk that can not hit Cmd/A
But why do you use light yellow letters?
I can't see it here but I see webpages in colors I can't read and I
wonder what's wrong with the authors and I skip them. This may be my
one
chance to understand!

Since you ask I will try to respond.

When I send the post it is not in a
light yellow color. I guess you call it dark yellow on black.
Something
in your reader makes it light yellow.

---- ened quote----

It doesn't show the line above the sig. I cant' get the cursor low
enough to include it when "selecting" text. Ignore the excessive
line-wrapping. It has to do with margins set in my reader, default
margines that cause trouble very very rarely, like here.