Sure. It's because HTML adds little "codes" into the message. A higher end
browser can say "hey, that's HTML!" and either choose to read or ignore it.
Some browsers cannot, however, and it comes across as a bunch of machine
looking code. It tends to look scrambled, because your message (to me, with
OE 5.0) looks like it's in blue italics. However, these pretty blue italics
make reading it on certain newsreaders impossible, due to the imbedded code
that OE doesn't let you see. It's the same way the kak.worm virus worked;
it sent little codes to mess with your machine. So it's considered polite
in most circles to refrain from posting in HTML, because it adds
considerable length to the message (due to the invisible code) and it
renderers your message impossible to read for many.
----- Original Message -----
From: ALISON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 2:41 AM
Subject: from Alison
Im sorry some of you had problems with the e-mail I sent yesterday Im not
sure why that should be. I changed my format to plain text from HTML after
reading all the problems you were having on this list with viruses. I have
sent plain text to cavy lovers list no problem. Ive changed back to HTML for
this to see if it makes any difference.
Thank you Amy for translating for me. How did you do it? Can anyone give me
a clue as to why this happened.
Thanks, Alison
