Re: ÿþ< messages are confusing. Anybody know what is wrong?

From: Frank Saunders, MS-MVP IE/OE (franksaunders_at_mvps.org)
Date: 12/15/04


Date: Wed, 15 Dec 2004 05:54:36 -0600


"SD" <sue.darnell@verizon.net> wrote in message
news:41BFD7B2.3828232@verizon.net
> From my sister (posting for her):
> "Can some one give me a SIMPLE explanation of why
> when I reply to SOME emails the only thing that is
> received is a YP message,
> yet if I initiate a NEW email to the same person
> saying the same thing..
> I do not get it. Is there a way to avoid this
> annoying problem?"
> I'm not sure what is going on there. But if I
> email her (she uses OE) (I use Nutscape)
> she replies and it looks like gibberish, but only
> 3 characters:
> "ÿþ<"
> Whta it is I can't figure out. She said one day a
> window popped up and asked her if she wanted to
> "compress" some folders in OE.
> She clicked "yes".
> Then when she rpllies to somone after this, it
> asked if she wantted to use unicode or something
> or send "as is".
> She clicked "Unicode" (or whatever it was)..
> Now she can't reply to me or it looks like "ÿþ<"
> only.
> No message, no nothing.
> Just "ÿþ<".
> Someone help us please?
> Btw, my OE is stuck. opens and crashes!
>
> -sd

It's a bug in some versions of OE. If I remember correctly, it can be fixed
by choosing Include message in reply (Tools | Options | Send).

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