--- In [EMAIL PROTECTED], "jhrothjr"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> --- 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
Interesting. It definitely seems to be Yahoo
removing leading spaces. It removed them on
both test posts, but now they're back when
I'm in the reply frame.
John Roth
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