MAILING LISTS

I have no problems with the email list

I am using outlook/exchange


Jim

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On Behalf Of Lion Gardiner
Sent: Wednesday, February 02, 2005 7:19 PM
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Subject: Re: The"horrible e-mail" problem on this list

I just printed out Larry's message and found 3 pp. of message and 12 of
trash code.

Lion Gardiner



Michael Sweet wrote:

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>A guess is that people are sending HTML formatted messages to the list
>and either the list server, a mail server somewhere in between, or
>individual's e-mail clients are not able to recognize and display HTML.

>So you see the HTML code instead of the prettied-up text that the HTML
>is supposed to render.
>
>I use Outlook Express and I know that it defaults to HTML-formatted
>messages.  Even when you set the default to "Plain Text" sometimes when
>*replying* it still wants to run home to mama and format in HTML--you
>must manually set it to "Plain Text" on a message-by-message basis.
>(Unless there is some hidden setting I have not found.)
>
>So. . . if no server-related setting can be fiddled-with, I recommend
>folks take special care to ensure they are sending "Plain Text"
>messages to the list and see if that helps.
>
>Just my $.02.
>
>(I am sending this as "Plain Text."  Hope you can read it!)
>
>-Michael
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