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In a message dated 12/28/04 6:28:56 AM Pacific Standard Time,  
agoodall@att.net writes:

On 23  Dec 2004 at 23:00, The GZG Digest wrote:

> Date: Thu, 23 Dec 2004  22:45:52 -0500
> From: "Laserlight"  <laserlight@quixnet.net>
> Subject: [LIST] plain text
>  
> When you post to the List, please use PLAIN TEXT  only.

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I've posted before about this and it's been  ignored, or some folks
don't 
realize they are sending HTML as well as  plain text. Since it clogs up 
the digest I tend to just skim right over  those messages without
reading 
them; unfortunately that means more than  once I've missed the message 
that follows right after  it...

Well, I think one can turn it off HTML on the Yahoo groups (not  sure
but I 
think it sends in plain text) but ironically I need HTML to read in  an 
intelligible fashion some of the bead newsletters I get via e-mail.  
Since THIS LIST 
(emphasis not volume) isn't a Yahoo list I am in a quandary how  I am to
send 
plain text to it only when I need HTML to read the bead newsletters  I
get 
via my e-mail on AOL.  I assume you can select HTML or plain text in 
AOL 
(somewhere) but I doubt I can have it plain text for this list only.  I 
have no 
idea whether you can send plain text and 'receive' HTML in  AOL.  I
usually use 
the default settings unless and until I am aware  of the alternatives.
 
Suggestions on a solution will be considered.  Not  necessarily
implemented 
if they make my life complicated but certainly	considered.
 
When I had Juno and could ONLY send in plain text my personal
frustration  
was MIME format AND HTML (Brigade Games newsletter, IIRC, was sent in
the latter 
 and several posters used MIME so I understand about unintelligible  
messages.)  In addition, Juno used to turn attachments into pages and
pages  of 
'characters' which was the worst -- instant full mail box problems.  
Technology 
solves one problem only to create two more.  
 
And I was on the Digest version of this list, among others, for a  short

while and one of the reasons I hate digests (besides the lack of
snipping  people 
perform) was the difficulty in reading (and responding to) individual  
postings in the digest.  The worst was a digest full of MIME messages 
(instant 
duplication of each (unsnipped) message).  I once read a series of 
messages 
between several people that featured an involved exchange where each 
unsnipped 
message carried the same series of postings -- plus the new comment(s) 
-- 
sometime on the front, sometimes on the end of the unsnipped messages --
 intact and 
then MIME repeated the content again for each message.	And  the subject
was 
something I wanted to understand but the endless repeating of  content
made it 
near impossible to read the 'information' between all the 'data'  in the

digest.
 
Gracias,

Glenn  "warbeads"