mail text encoding (was: dynamic configuration .... )

[Antonio Olivares]

--- On Tue, 7/13/10, Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com> wrote:

> From: Michal Jaegermann <michal at harddata.com>
> Subject: Re: mail text encoding (was: dynamic configuration .... )
> To: "For testers of Fedora development releases" <test at lists.fedoraproject.org>
> Date: Tuesday, July 13, 2010, 10:18 AM
> On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 08:34:20AM
> -0700, Antonio Olivares wrote:
> > > > Am I the only one who sees it/saw it this
> way?
> > > I think you may be the only one seeing it this
> way. 
> > > The message was
> > > sent as Content-Type: text/plain;
> charset="us-ascii".
> > > 
> > > Check the archives to see how it should look...
> > > 
> > 
> > http://lists.fedoraproject.org/pipermail/test/2010-July/092051.html
> > 
> > His posts on the archives look fine, but this one ^
> looks the same
> > way I saw it.
> 
> You posted it so it includes all garbled content you have
> quoted.
I did not do it on purpose, that garbled content was what I saw, and I responded/asked is it only me?  
>
> 
> > What could have been the problem?
> 
> It appears that your mail reader is using some hardwired
> encoding
> instead of paying attention to a charset declaration in
> what was
> posted.  Or maybe some intermediate mail server is
> "kind enough" for
> you to do conversions with some random settings.
>
Regular yahoo mail, using konqueror web browser.
>
> 
> BTW - this particular message is sent with an utf-8
> encoding.
> 
>    Michał
> -- 

I am not using any special mail, just basic yahoo mail.  There appears to be no problem with this one.  What could it have been?

I normally don't see these kinds of messages, but this one came like that. I ask myself what could it have been?  

Thanks and sorry for asking.

Regards,

Antonio