Hello MFPA, On Wednesday, June 18, 2014 you wrote:
M> Hi M> On Monday 16 June 2014 at 12:14:42 AM, in M> <mid:16731904.20140615181...@charter.net>, Jack S. LaRosa wrote: >> I used this Gmail account to BCC myself >> on several HTML messages so that I could see what my >> recipients were seeing. M> I take it you *know* they view their mail exclusively on the google M> website, without any "themes" being available that might affect the M> display formatting, and you also looked at it on the google website M> using the same browser version as they use and the same browser M> settings, on the same platform. Use a MUA, or a different browser, or M> a mobile phone and all bets are off. Well, if in fact all those things will affect the way the text is displayed, then I guess I really don't know how the text appears to them. I never checked, just assumed. >> As I recall the formatting >> came through ok. I fear that most of my recipients >> would not understand the asterisks, slashes and >> underscores if I switched to plaintext for them. M> I don't know your recipients, obviously. But for a random sample, I M> would expect nearly everybody who saw the asterisks in an email to M> understand them, and probably ~60% with the underscores. But asking M> them in the abstract without showing them, far fewer would claim to M> know. You're probably right, it's just that in my mind there's some visceral emotion that italics, bold and underline convey that asterisks, slashes and underscores fail to deliver. -- Best Regards, Jack LaRosa :usflag: Central Alabama Using The Bat! ver: 5.2. Running Windows 7 Pro ver 6 build 7601 Service Pack 1 ________________________________________________ Current version is 6.1.8 | 'Using TBUDL' information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
