[RTTY] Question marks

[iain macdonnell - N6ML]

They render fine in Gmail, so I never noticed, but I just looked at
the source for one of Bill's forwarded messages, and it's MIME-encoded
quoted-printable. I guess some email clients can't handle that....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quoted-printable

73,

    ~iain / N6ML



On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 10:51 PM, Ed Muns <ed at w0yk.com> wrote:
> All of the  N7WA postings from you, via this reflector, have been similarly
> impossible to read for at least a year on my computers.  In my case, there
> are no question marks but all the CR characters seem to be missing, such
> that none of the data is lined up.  It is impossible to decipher.  However,
> since I also subscribe to CQ-Contest and get Dink's postings directly this
> is not a problem for me.
>
> Ed W0YK
>
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: rtty-bounces at contesting.com
>> [mailto:rtty-bounces at contesting.com] On Behalf Of Bill Turner
>> Sent: Thursday, June 21, 2012 8:14 PM
>> To: RTTYReflector
>> Subject: [RTTY] Question marks
>>
>> Hi folks:  As you probably know, for several years I have
>> been forwarding contest scores which I receive from the 3830
>> reflector. Today I received an email from a member who said
>> the text was being received incorrectly. Here is a sample of
>> what he is getting:
>>
>> Call? ? ? ? ? ? ?  QSOs Mults?  hr? ? ? Score Club All SOAB
>> HP WF2S? ? ? ? ? ? ?  192?  909? ? ? ? ?  77,380 ORLEANS
>> COUNTY A.R.C OK2SFP? ? ? ? ? ?  130? ? 72? 6:10? ?  40,968
>> W6SX? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? 32? ? 12? ? ? ? ? ? ? 564 NCCC
>>
>> As you can see, question marks are replacing some of the
>> text. I have no idea what is causing this except to guess the
>> font is being interpreted incorrectly.
>>
>>
>> Do any of you experts out there have any ideas how to correct
>> this?  All suggestions appreciated.
>>
>> 73, Bill W6WRT
>> RTTY List Administrator at contesting.com
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