Aha! A Windoze weirdness or maybe HP. You may have accidentally set an offbeat text character encoding standard. That was the problem on the Mac and a subject of several tech blogs on the subject. And a cursory search on "Windows weird email characters" will bring up a number links to articles too. I'm using UTF-8 in Thunderbird and this post.
I think part of the problem too is that so many software engineers are assuming everyone is using Rich Text for email these days too. On 06/06/2013 09:49 AM, Share Long wrote: > hi noozguru, actually I'm using a 7 yr old HP Pavilion PC. But I am running > Windows Vista. Maybe that's the problem? No, I think MJ is right and yahoo is > having fun again. Thank the computer gods, I got a second email from yahoo > this morning and it had their logo in subject line so now I'm pretty sure the > other email was bogus. I will NOT be clicking through. > > OTOH, maybe my paging arrows disappeared because I accidently hit a button. > With the dizzyness, I'm clumsier than usual. I have consulted yahoo help but > so far it's been unhelpful (-: > > > As for Kitchen Nightmares, one shudders to imagine the vibes going into Amy's > food no matter how yummy it might be. > > > ________________________________ > From: Bhairitu <noozg...@sbcglobal.net> > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Sent: Thursday, June 6, 2013 11:26 AM > Subject: Re: [FairfieldLife] Re: help again! > > > > > On 06/06/2013 08:09 AM, turquoiseb wrote: >> --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Share Long <sharelong60@...> wrote: >>> Xeno, I don't have more than one email address. Thanks >>> for helpful reply. As for other request, a solution I >>> tried last night didn't work. This morning I was rushing >>> as usual and hoping for a quick answer if one were possible. >>> Ok, rushing again as doc wants fasting blood work which I'm >>> off to do now. On a totally empty stomach! >>> >>> PS I know turq likes mountains but did he really have to >>> make this molehill into one?! >> BTW, above is what your text looks like when we try >> to reply to it. The  marks are being inserted by >> whatever program you're using to write to FFL. > She must be using a Mac. I pointed this a little while back to Lawson > since his posts were doing this. He tried some of the suggestions > online but said it messed up his posts more. Remember, Apple just has > to "be different" hence often incompatible. They're like that couple > that ran that restaurant in the "Kitchen Nightmares" video link I posted > last night. :-D > > >