When I sent the email to IBM-MAIN, it sent a copy back to me. So, I guess I didn't need anyone to send it to me after all! But for those that did, I saw what you saw; i.e. the paragraph I manually entered had no indentation (which it should have), and the text I pasted from a mainframe session had all flowed together. In addition, my signature at the bottom of the email had also flowed into one long line.
I'll forward the results to Microsoft and hopefully they can figure out what's causing it. Thanks to everyone that responded! FYI: This email is being sent as 'plain text'. Dave Salt SimpList(tm) - try it; you'll get it! http://www.mackinney.com/products/SIM/simplist.htm > Date: Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:31:06 -0400 > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Is this email formatted correctly? > To: [email protected] > > When I send emails to IBM-MAIN, I always try to remember to click the 'Show > plain text' button. Otherwise, the email is sent as rich text and I've been > told that everything flows into one big 'blob' and is difficult to read. > > This formatting problem doesn't occur when I send emails to individuals. And > because the default always go back to rich text, I sometimes forget to click > the 'plain text' button when sending emails to IBM-MAIN. Because this is a > pain, I've just reported it to Microsoft and they've asked me to send them an > example of what people receive. So, if anyone is reading this message and the > formatting doesn't look 'right', would you mind sending it back to me so I > can forward it to Microsoft? > > Just so you know what the formatting 'should' look like, I manually entered > the following: > > This is on a line all by itself. > This is on a line all by itself, and indented 3 spaces. > Same as above but indented 6 spaces. > Once again, but only indented 3 spaces. > Not indented. > > The paragraph below is identical to the paragraph above, except that I pasted > it from a mainframe session (just in case it makes any difference): > > This is on a line all by itself. This is on a line all by itself, and > indented 3 spaces. Same as above but indented 6 spaces. Once again, but only > indented 3 spaces. Not indented. > > Thanks! > Dave SaltSimpList(tm) - try it; you'll get it! > http://www.mackinney.com/products/SIM/simplist.htm > _________________________________________________________________ > Try Chicktionary, a game that tests how many words you can form from the > letters given. Find this and more puzzles at Live Search Games! > http://g.msn.ca/ca55/207 > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, > send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO > Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html > _________________________________________________________________ ---------------------------------------------------------------------- For IBM-MAIN subscribe / signoff / archive access instructions, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the message: GET IBM-MAIN INFO Search the archives at http://bama.ua.edu/archives/ibm-main.html
