Tannis Baker wrote: >I get quite a few html only messages from friends/colleagues using >hotmail, lycos, etc. I could require that they change but I am not sure >they know how or whether it is that easy.
And as I have said previously, the university where I taught part time until recently sent me html mail. I couldn't require them to change, and sending them automated messages telling them to would not have been a good idea if I wanted to get any classes. I subscribe to a freedivelist with about 550 divers and the server is set up to accept plain text only, and there are a significant number of subscribers who can lurk but never post because they can't figure out how to send plain text. What I don't understand is that some of them send me posts and ask me to forward to the list, and I get them as plain text, but they say that they have received an automated message that they had attempted to post to the list in "rich text." Why do I receive their posts as plain text, but those same people can't get past the list server? Granted, divers are not necessarily computer whizzes, but it seems that there must be a significant number of mail clients out there that make it hard to the average person to send plain text. Bill McIntyre ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
