Sorry Roger
Didn't realize I was not using 'plain text'. Have now changed the format.
Jackie :-)
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From: "Roger Fern" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Friday, November 29, 2002 1:14 AM
Subject: Re: Email formatting
> >
> > I do not understand any of the technicalities of this IT stuff
>
> ***** It's a pity, but one has to, a little bit.
>
> but
> > Jackie's own message appears on my email reader (Turnpike) only as an
> > attachment. It is identified as an html attachment but that is all.
> >
> Ian Clark mentions "plain text (ie without HTML or fancy MS
> Word-type formatting)". Jackie may be using MS Outlook Express. In
> Outlook Express, if you don't switch the formatting to "plain text"
> I think you automatically get HTML -- many users don't realise what
> this means. My mail program (Pegasus) passes HTML-type messages to a
> web-browser (e.g. Internet Explorer), and leaves that to unscramble
> them. It looks as though Frank's browser does that by treating
> the whole message as an attachment, leaving some other program to
> unscramble it. I do wish people would turn HTML (and any other fancy
> formatting) OFF.
>
> Sorry if that sounds grumpy -- I don't mean to be.
>
> Roger Fern.
>
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> Roger Fern, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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