[WikiEN-l] Top posting poll; was Re: MONGO and the ArbCom

[Jim Schuler]

On 12/14/06, Daniel R. Tobias <dan at tobias.name> wrote:
>
> Thomas Dalton wrote:
> > Daniel R. Tobias wrote:
> > > I've created a tool to check e-mail messages for many of the common
> > > problems and issues:
> > >
> > > http://mailformat.dan.info/tools/check.html
> >
> > Bug report: I just submitted one of my emails to your checker. It said
> > I didn't have a date header, from header or subject line - the message
> > had all three.
>
> Since you're on Gmail, the most likely problem is (as documented in the
> information about getting a full dump of a message, headers and all, at
> the bottom of the page) that you copied-and-pasted the message with a
> blank line above the headers, the way Gmail presents it when you view
> the message source.  The MIME-parsing library I use follows the
> standards and regards the headers as ending with the first blank line,
> meaning that it treats the headers as part of the body instead.  Delete
> the blank line from the top of the message in the input box and it
> should work.
>
> --
> Dan


Oddly enough, the g-mail default is to top post.  How 'bout that?


-- 
Jim
http://iacobomus.blogspot.com/