<crossposted to nz.comp out of curiosity. Please see original too!>
"John Cawston" responds:
: Max Ambient wrote:
: > "John Cawston" <> in
: > nz.general<cpm8rc$9fj$>
: >>
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/14/te...?oref=login&th
: >>
: >> Part of the story.
: >>
: >> "Google Is Adding Major Libraries to Its DatabaseBy JOHN
: >> MARKOFF and EDWARD WYATT
: >
: > [snip]
: >
: > Nice story, and good show, but why the attachments?
:
: Dont know. Some peculiar things happening with Firefox lately. Certainly I
: didnt notice any attachments until the post turned up.
:
: JC
Perhaps it was in a sense reporting the existence of them accurately
I'd noticed Google doing inconsistently odd things with tracking cookies
recently and was perhaps a bit jumpy to seize on your otherwise fine post!
I've an old subscription to NYT though and I just tried copying and pasting
the article without any such effect - but then, in my headers you'll see
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii
I'm not sure what the "X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original" means ...
Just curious. (A bare search on it is of little help

(using old Moz 1.6)
: > You seem to have inadvertently included them ...
: > Tracking devices from the original?
: > I see in your headers :
: > X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.2180
: > X-MIMEOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.2180
: > X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original
: > I wonder if any of these are relevant. Or interaction with the
: > browser.
: >
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Cheers!
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