Every so often, I used to get emails from Aweb, telling me that someone had replied to a thread that I'd posted in.
Now I get emails from [email protected] telling me
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I dont sign up to many, just had one this morning, re the Sage deprecation post, but email did not have all that extra blurb on it.
Ive just had a couple of them land. Its very odd to see! Even infected where they have come from!
So far, no. But then I have email response turned off & my spam box works well. When something gets through I look at the subject heading and decide yea or nay if I want to read it, but don't mark it as spam. I get a lot of rubbish - companies house and the pension regulator take a bow here - but sometime there is a nugget of good information or news. Information these days is filled with warnings, that you are already know about, or adverts, or repeat information that leads you in circles. Have a look at any technical manual, for example. It will give world-wide addresses, warnings about every thing under the sun, but only short items about the product itself & use.
And breathe... rant over.
Spot on (including the 'for some (unknown) reason') bit).
FWIW I've received the gobbledegook styled emails for both 'Thanks' emails and for notification emails of a new Comment (when 'following' a thread).
And it's not restricted to threads on Any Answers, it also applies (for the above scenarios) with regard to comments on Articles (such as Rebecca's recent 'Boomers shouldn’t get all the tax breaks').
Thanks for bringing up the issue (they certainly look like they've been regurgitated) ... hopefully someone at Sift will finally notice & rectify the abominations.
I've just 'Liked' the thread in the hope that lionofludesch can tell us whether that, too, generates one of these voluminous emails?
[It also takes your count to 99 ... so maybe someone else can do the honours to get you to 100].
Me Too! Lots of them.
Seems to be associated with 'Thanks'
The email is malformed. Amongst other things it doesn't include a subject before the first blank line. It didn't quite get marked as spam in my case:
X-Spam-Status: No, score=3.6 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_50,DKIM_SIGNED,
DKIM_VALID,MISSING_HEADERS,MISSING_SUBJECT autolearn=no
autolearn_force=no version=3.4.2
Started Friday 19.12
continues as of 10.00 today
Edit
just the same as I just liked this
Editorial team will not know as thanks are for comments not articles
Something is malformed in the email which is making it treat all the html tags as text. Could be as simple as a single missing character (but my skills aren't up to identifying it). All this stuff is always there, but usually you don't see it.
Something is malformed in the email which is making it treat all the html tags as text. Could be as simple as a single missing character (but my skills aren't up to identifying it). All this stuff is always there, but usually you don't see it.
The key problem is a blank line in the middle of the "headers" - it looks to me like someone is constructing the email using an API incorrectly and the headers are being included as body text. But the very first line of the email body (after the first blank line) is a date without any header prefix.
The OP has the "body" of the email quoted. If the blank line before this and that weird date were removed then the email might be interpreted better (I've not checked what conflicts with the real headers of the email there might be)
This is the "header" that would tell most email clients to interpret the email as HTML:
Content-Type: text/html; charset="utf-8"
but because it's in the email body, all sane email clients will display it rather than interpret it.
Apologies one and all. It looks like gremlins in the system, which our crack team are working hard to resolve.
And yes, although it's not always great for morale, we do read the comments :-)
I know you do, Tom, and the thick skin is both necessary & appreciated.
My comment was tongue-in-cheek and aimed at Paul with regard to his assertion that Articles are thankless (in every sense of that word) by pointing out it may be true, but they attract comments which are then thankable - if there's such a word!
Articles are not likeable, only threads
And on articles the writer does not get the thanks, the commentator does
Hence the team are unlikely to see the problem without testing it.
It would be a HUGE undertaking for the team to read every comment and posting.
Now I keep getting this one:
https://blog.jmwhite.co.uk/2015/09/19/revealing-why-emails-appear-off-ce... */
div[style*="margin: 16px 0"] {margin:0 !important; font-size:100% !important;}
Which isn't any help.
Hello all. Thank you for flagging this issues. Our DEV team has fixed the issue and you should no longer be receiving these broken emails.