[Vwdiesel] RE: Downloading Raw Archive

[Roger Brown]

"William A. Thompson" wrote:
> Are you sure you are trying the "download the full raw archive" on
> http://www.audifans.com/pipermail/vwdiesel/ ? After reading your reply I
> again attempted to D/L with IE and no go. After clicking the link, the
> address bar contains
> "mhtml:http://www.audifans.com/pipermail/vwdiesel.mbox/vwdiesel.mbox" and
> the page reports "The page cannot be displayed". This has been the same
> result for several months that I have tried. I was not successful in D/L it
> until I used Netscape. My PC configuration is not unusual ... IE is fully
> updated ... I have been running computers, networks and internet
> applications since they existed ... I have degrees in
> computer/network/internet/mainframe/electronic technology although I
> acknowledge that even in a degreed education holes in knowledge do still
> exist. . I have not had my attention drawn to "mhtml" as in the link so I
> have not pursued the details .... but my IE will not download it. There
> could be IE options effecting this that I haven't associated to the "mhtml"
> part of the address .... but it has to be associated to that.
> Thanks for your reply ... at least I know that someone reports being able to
> use IE to D/L it ... so I have some interesting research to do to find out
> why you can but I can not.
>
> "Michael Snow" <mwsnow=j9pdmedNgrk at public.gmane.org> wrote in message
> news:3F64C359.3060608 at cox.net...
> > Probably because that's not the case.  I downloaded all 17 MB of it with
> > IE just to test.
> >
> > Mike Snow
> >
> > > hey ... how come no one mentions that IE won't download that "raw"
> archive and you have to use Netscape?

Probably need to use a Right-click and SaveAs, seems to work for me.  IE probably lacks or has a different MIME type definition
for the mbox format.  Netscape works with mbox format natively since the mail reader is built into the Nescape product, while IE
is web only, and Outlook probably has no clue as to what mbox file are.

In case you are wondering what the mbox file is, its a Unix-based mail box file that holds a concatenated list of mail messages,
see below:
	http://www.qmail.org/qmail-manual-html/man5/mbox.html

--
    Roger