I posted this to another who replied to me personally... No offense taken...however...in Win9X version of Netscape 4.6, I am using the Netscape Web Mail, there is a box (currently UNCHECKED) to "Send as HTML". On my fist posting to this mail list and all subsequent posts..including this one...HTML is NOT checked. The only thing I can think of that is triggering this HTML like action is the fact that the "Compose" window auto-wraps long lines (basically you keep typing and it wraps automatically). All I can say is, yes the help/advice is greatly appreciated by us Newbies, but you are also dealing with people that in some cases are total newbies to computer's/internet/OS's and are not even sure what the heck you guys are requesting when "TOLD" to drop the HTML. Thank you Jaguar Civileme <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thank you for not using HTML. > > I forsee this list dividing into two soon enough; those who post in HTML and those who answer > plain-text inquiries. It is likely that the latter will be unable to see the former or their > inquiries. > > I use Pine to read the list, and mark messages I want to respond to, then I go to Netscape to > research my answers. I like Pine quite a lot, and I am not willing to give it up just > because some people don't send in plain text. Usually, I don't whine, I just suggest that > querents turn it off. If hey choose to continue to post in HTML, their names go into a kill > file on Pine and a filter is set up on Netscape, and I am unbothered. > > But if lots of other folks do what I do, this list won't be one list; it will be two, as I > conjectured. > > I think it would be useful if the information on decorum for this list were placed in the > majordomo welcome, along with a short tutorial on how to turn off HTML for those who don't > realize it. I know how to do it for Netscape, but I am among the unwashed masses who have > NEVER used Microsoft Outlook. > > And, for those of us here, some of the entrants to this list are unaware that their mailers > are sending in HTML, and some are just plain unaware that there are such things as HTML and > Plain Text on their mailers. Remember that Microsoft makes it possible to do this--to send > mail without knowing. It would behoove us to approach the first-time HTML poster gently. > Nevertheless, the list is nore efficient and courteous if Plain Text is the accepted decorum. > > Somehow, I had one of my netscapes posting to this list in BOTH. I didn't notice because > I was fighting with upgrades over a MediaGX processor and wasn't using Pine at the time. No > one mentioned it until one friend asked why I was posting in both during a conversation on > ICQ. I wish someone had mentioned it much sooner!!! > > > Civileme > > Jaguar wrote: > > <SNIP> > > > > > > > So either quit whining about the use of HTML, or get a better Mail reader > > ____________________________________________________________________ Get your own FREE, personal Netscape WebMail account today at http://webmail.netscape.com.
