You need to watch the options when you send an
email or check your options.
Diable, 'send as html' or click 'No' if you're
asked.
David
On Sat, 30 Nov 2002 18:49:39 -0000 Jacqueline Gore
<[log in to unmask]> wrote:
# Sorry Roger
#
# Didn't realize I was not using 'plain text'. Have now changed the format.
#
# Jackie :-)
#
#
# ----- Original Message -----
# From: "Roger Fern" <[log in to unmask]>
# To: <[log in to unmask]>
# 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.
# >
# > ----------------------------------------------------------
# >
# > Roger Fern, Newcastle upon Tyne.
# >
# > ----------------------------------------------------------
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