Thanks for the response, Peter!
Excellent suggestion. I should add that the characters only seem to gum
up moderated lists and I did want to offer a solution to posterity.
But you are absolutely correct: I do have administrivia enabled on this
list, which I will remove forthwith.
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Williamsburg Regional Library
7770 Croaker Road
Williamsburg, VA 23188-7064
(757)259-4044 www.wrl.org
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On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Peter P. Benac wrote:
PPB>
PPB> Considering this list is run through MD I think you need to look elsewhere
PPB> for the cause of your problems. Those characters didn't do anything to this
PPB> list.
PPB>
PPB> Do you have administrivia enabled or not? If you do turn it off and MD
PPB> won't scan the body of your messages anymore.
PPB>
PPB> Regards,
PPB> Pete
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PPB> -----Original Message-----
PPB> From: majordomo-users-owner @
greatcircle .
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PPB> [mailto:majordomo-users-owner @
greatcircle .
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PPB> Sent: Wednesday, November 15, 2006 14:01
PPB> To: majordomo-users @
greatcircle .
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PPB> Subject: Filter for special characters?
PPB>
PPB> I would like to post a question as well as offer a solution to a
PPB> particular problem we experience with majordomo every few weeks.
PPB> I have a user who moderates a closed list and frequently makes posts
PPB> that contain "special" characters, for lack of a better term, imbedded in
PPB> her text.
PPB> Here are two examples:
PPB>
PPB> "Paxton's 40-year career. A two-time Grammy® nominee, he has received the"
PPB>
PPB> "Tafelmusik of Toronto and Concerto Köln in addition to other early and"
PPB>
PPB> Please note the "®" and "ö" in these two lines. These are seen as
PPB> control characters by the Majordomo program and cause the program to behave
PPB> in unpredictable ways. Posts that contain characters like this will not
PPB> distribute nor bounce.
PPB> QUESTION: is there a filter of some sort for MJ that will remove and
PPB> or escape these sorts of characters so as to not offend/confuse?
PPB> WORKAROUND: I've discovered if you cut and paste text like this into
PPB> MS Word (not WordPad) and do a "Save As", selecting "MS-DOS Text (*.txt) as
PPB> the "Save as type:" that these sorts of special characters will be removed
PPB> in that saved file.
PPB> If you then pull that file up into Word or someother text editor and
PPB> cut and past into an email client things move ahead as expected.
PPB>
PPB>
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PPB> Brett Charbeneau
PPB> Network Administrator
PPB> Williamsburg Regional Library
PPB> 7770 Croaker Road
PPB> Williamsburg, VA 23188-7064
PPB> (757)259-4044 www.wrl.org
PPB> (757)259-4079 (fax) brett @
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please .
wrl .
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