Goofy Message from eBay Member?

Comments

• tincup Posts: 5,479 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 11, 2007 2:40AM

  beats me... I'd be suspicious of it? Is the email for a legitimate purpose?
  

  ----- kj

  0
• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 11, 2007 2:47AM

  It's just a bunch of mumbo jumbo.
  

  To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  

  0
• jonathanb Posts: 4,027 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 11, 2007 3:00AM

  Email is defined as being plain text. No styles, no colors, no pictures, no attachments, no nothing. Just plain text.
  
  "But wait!" you say. You get emails with pictures and attachments and styles and colors all the time.
  
  Yes, that's true. There is a standard protocol for the sender of an email to convert all of that information into plain text, and for the receiver of the protocol to convert it back. That protocol is called MIME, Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions. You've been sending and receiving MIME-encoded emails for years without knowing it.
  
  So what happened with that email?
  
  a) Your software is broken
  b) The sender's software is broken
  c) There was an internet hiccup between the sender and you that corrupted the email in such a way as to make it un-decodable
  d) The sender is a spammer and trying to sucker you into sending a response, thereby confirming that you're a live person who really does read their email.
  
  If you think the problem is (a), (b), or (c), then send a response and ask the sender to resend their message.

  0
• Bochiman Posts: 25,789 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 11, 2007 3:00AM

  Multipurpose Internet Mail Extensions (MIME) is an Internet Standard that extends the format of e-mail to support:
  
  text in character sets other than US-ASCII;
  non-text attachments;
  multi-part message bodies; and
  header information in non-ASCII character sets.
  
  
  
  Edited to add.....agree with Jonathan above....particularly (C) or (D)

  I've been told I tolerate fools poorly...that may explain things if I have a problem with you. Current ebay items - Nothing at the moment

  0
• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 11, 2007 3:56AM

  Thanks guys... I think I'll pass on getting the sender to resend as it has to be spam!

  To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  

  0
• BSHINC Posts: 549

  November 11, 2007 4:31AM

  Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
  
  I wanted to see a MIME, You guys are letting me down on this Sunday
  
  
  
  BILL
  
  
  P.S. to add-----Good info to know you bunch of BRAINS

  0
• chiefbob Posts: 1,077 ✭✭✭

  November 11, 2007 4:36AM

  The last words a Mime was heard saying: "I think I shall become a Mime".

  Retired Air Force 1965-2000
  Vietnam Vet 1968-1969

  0
• Broadstruck Posts: 30,497 ✭✭✭✭✭

  November 11, 2007 4:43AM

  Happy?
  
  

  To Err Is Human.... To Collect Err's Is Just Too Much Darn Tootin Fun!
  

  0
• BSHINC Posts: 549

  November 11, 2007 2:21PM

  Perfect....
  
  Thanks Broadstruck.
  
  

  0