--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], Gary Feldman
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> aacockburn wrote:
>
> > Here's the weird thing --- I used spaces in the entry form, not tabs,
> > and checked it in Preview, and they were all there. I clicked Send,
> > and then in the posted version everything is left aligned .... but
>
> I've learned recently that figuring out email formatting is more
difficult than one might expect. There's the user's mail client, the
mailing list's processing (if any), the recipient's client, and any
online archival services. There's a plethora of settings, including
wrap settings on both sender's and recipient's mail clients, as well
as the assortment of processing done for replies. Then throw in
conversions between HTML and plain text, and back. I wouldn't be
surprised if it's the latter that's confusing things.
>
> The result is that even when sending to yourself, it's easy to
configure your mail client so that the appearance of the message as
you compose it is not the same as the appearance when you read the
received version.
Let's try a very simple experiment. I'm going to
send this version with my default setting of plain
text, then I'm going to reply a second time with
the same thing and send it with my default set to
HTML.
Left margin
3 spaces
6 spaces
9 spaces
(note - tab doesn't work - it selects the next box)
John Roth
>
> Gary
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