The 313 list only accepts plain text messages. This means I get email every day from EZMLM saying that it didn't accept people's messages because they weren't plain text. I have some notes for people using different e-mail clients on how to make sure to always send plain text.
THUNDERBIRD 1. Choose Edit->Preferences from the menu bar. 2. Click on the 'Composition' tag in the Preferences dialog box. 3. Click on 'Send Options...' 4. Click on 'Plain Text Domains' tab. 5. Click on 'Add...' button. 6. Type 'hyperreal.org' 7. Hit OK, OK, Close. Thunderbird will now make all e-mails that go to any address at hyperreal.org plain text. GMAIL If you click on 'Compose Mail' you will either see "Rich formatting>>" above the upper left corner of the editor box, or a row of formatting icons followed by "<< Plain Text" above the editor box. If you see the latter, click on "<< Plain text" before sending. GMAIL doesn't have any way to mark a domain or specific e-mail address so that it only sends plain text. Gmail also makes 'smart' decisions depending on whether you're responding to an HTML message. So if you 'reply all' to a message on 313, and send a message to the previous poster and to 313, it will send HTML e-mail to both. Then, EZMLM will reject the message, but the previous poster will get an HTML copy of the e-mail. They may reply, thinking they're sending to 313, but really they just sent to you. So neither of you know why your message didn't show up. OSX Mail.app (from Greg Earle) In OS X's Mail.app, you go to Preferences, click on "Composing", and the top-most entry in that window will be "Composing; Message Format:"with a pull down menu. The top-most entry is "Plain Text". The real problem is that most of the time, you're responding to a message (or the Digest, in my case), and Mail.app wants to preserve the format of what you're replying to (Rich Text or Plain Text), so sometimes it gets set to Rich Text by default if there's anything in there that isn't strictly Plain Text (look at any posting from John Sokolowski, for example). You have to be ever vigilant :-) OUTLOOK EXPRESS Best fix, download Thunderbird, and make it your default Mail application. Second best fix -- I believe -- but I don't have access to a machine with OE -- you can tag a Contact as only accepting plain text. OUTLOOK Just get a gmail account and keep 313 out of your work inbox. No one uses Outlook unless they make you do it at work, innit? If you must persist, I assume the fix is a setting on the Contact. PINE You have to set a bunch of arcane config flags to get anything besides plain text. Thank you for rolling old school. OTHERS let me know...
