RE: Text or HTML

this'd make reading Jerry's work a lot easier for most of us.

At 4:43 PM +0100 9/7/99, Tim Jones wrote:
> >  I have really enjoyed all the discussions of new rules, but one
thing
>>is starting to become a huge problem.  It seems that the digests that
I
>>have been getting are only a few messages as the majority of the
digest
>>is HTML tags. I know that most mail programs allow you to turn this
>>off.	Is there something that can we can do to cut down on all of the
>>wasted space?
>>
>
>Jeff
>
>its an ongoing problem caused by mailer options and cut & paste
>operations between mailer windows and applications. What you get is
HTML
>or rich text or some other text format encoding mime type (this assumes
>that it isn't a problem with the digest process but I'd very much doubt
>it - Matt?)
>
>The best way to stop it is to identify the posters in the digest and
>politely inform them that their posts are having formatting problems,
>most will be unaware of inappropriate format posts, and happy to
comply.
>I know I was unaware on the occasions I have fallen foul of the cut and
>paste gotcha.
>
>There is a slight issue in that some mail clients are very difficult
>to get to stop doing it. The least we can do is try, as it
>is in the spirit of the list charter to post in plain text.
>
>FYI these posts also muck up the archives as Jerry's process
>is all plain text perl based.
>
>-= tim jones =-

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