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The GF uses Outlook Express as her email client. Since I got a Nildram DSL account, I find her emails are blank except for a lower case "p" and a "< " symbol, like this p< When I click "reply", the original message is shown in the compose window. So why does it not appear in the ISP email...

One for the physicists,electrical engineers and/or computer scientists - on occasion when I swipe my credit card at the supermarket, it comes up "unreadable". The kid at the register hands me a plastic bag, I put the card in the bag and swipe again, and it works. What's going on? Something to do...