Hi lute people - I recommend that when you compose a message to send to the lute list that you set the format to "plain" and avoid "rich text" and "HTML". This will keep you from using formatting options that won't get past the mail list robot un-mangled.
The lute list robot converts every message to plain text because there was a time, not long ago in lute builders time, when many of the readers could not interpret the fancier HTML coding that would appear in their mailbox, and they complained loudly about it. If it seems clear that now nobody is using a mail reader that doesn't understand HTML, I could start sending the mail on as HTML, which would allow people to use various fonts and colors in their messages. This would not be trivial for me to do, and some small number of messages would still come through garbled, but it is a possibility, if everyone on the list wanted things to work that way. I know a few people would be very excited to see HTML messages passed on in their original form, but I need to feel that everyone would prefer it. So let me know, one way or the other. Wayne To get on or off this list see list information at http://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~wbc/lute-admin/index.html
