[Date Prev][Date Next][Thread Prev][Thread Next][Date Index][Thread Index]

RE: [DL] e-mail advice (was: newbie



>About HTML and MSN: Try posting in Arial 10 point and nothing else.
>That's what AOL has been telling it's ver 6.0 users to do when they
>asked/complained about always sending mail in HTML. 

This is just plain wrong.  While it may affect the appearance of the e-mail,
it still mucks up the digest.

Patrick 

This is an example of what an HTML-format digest looks like to the digest
folks:

Someone mentioned last night that my messages were in html.  I contacted =
MSN support (new ISP, btw) and asked them how to turn it off.  They said =
I can't.  Any ideas?
      You should be able to go under Properties or Preferences in your =
e-mail program and change an option from "HTML" to "Plain Text."  I =
think that would fix it, but I'm no computer whiz.

------=_NextPart_000_0034_01C07BB4.9B822020
Content-Type: text/html;
	charset="iso-8859-1"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; =
charset=3Diso-8859-1">
<META content=3D"MSHTML 5.50.4134.600" name=3DGENERATOR>
<STYLE></STYLE>
</HEAD>
<BODY=20
style=3D"BORDER-RIGHT: medium none; BORDER-TOP: medium none; FONT: 10pt =
verdana; BORDER-LEFT: medium none; BORDER-BOTTOM: medium none"=20
bgColor=3D#ffffff>
<DIV>Someone mentioned last night that my messages were in html.&nbsp; I =

contacted MSN support (new ISP, btw) and asked them how to turn it =
off.&nbsp;=20
They said I can't.&nbsp; Any ideas?</DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE dir=3Dltr=20
style=3D"PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; =
BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px">
  <DIV><FONT face=3DArial>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; You should be able to go =
under=20
  Properties or Preferences in your e-mail program and change an option =
from=20
  "HTML" to "Plain Text."&nbsp; I think that would fix it, but I'm no =
computer=20
  whiz.</FONT></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>

------=_NextPart_000_0034_01C07BB4.9B822020--