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cybalist@yahoogroups.com, "G&P" <G.and.P@...> wrote:
> I sometimes see postings that have only someone else's post, and no reply.
> Now the same has happened to me. My reply to this got chopped off
> somewhere. Does anyone know what causes this?
Using Microsoft Outlook?
I don't, but have you worked out where it happened? From the source code recorded at
http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/cybalist/message/63623?source=1&var=1&l=1 your e-mail was sent in two versions - plain text and HTML. The HTML part, being second in the data, is taken in preference. However, your reply was lacking from the HTML part.
Can you examine the raw saved copy of the posting that you sent? For example, if one drags files from Outlook Express to a normal folder, you get a text file with extension .eml, and that is the raw text that it is sent across the internet. (That's as binary as it need get.)
For Outlook, I don't know of any good tools. An Outlook .msg file is a file system in itself, and there will be several files to look at within it. It may be that you can't do much better than a text-friendly binary dump. (There is freeware that will extract the constituent files, but my recollection is that that doesn't help much.) Be prepared to find your text in UTF-16 (for your posting, it will look like alternating ASCII characters and nulls), which is a good test of the text-friendliness of a binary dump.
This would then tell you whether your reply was sent out in both versions. I suspect it wasn't, because the HTML was properly delimited with <HTML>...</HTML> tags. Your reply was present in the plain text version.
Richard.