, *b and such happen because you write your post in word, copy and paste into your e-mail send message, and then your e-mail program converts it to plain text to send after you press the send button. Before you press the send button everything looks good, then it shows up on the OGD with ,*b and other things, especially when you meant for a "quote" to be there. This happens in any Mozilla e-mail program like the current Thunderbird, but it may happen in any e-mail program with plain texts set as default on your send options. Instructions for changing the default in Mozilla Thunderbird, other e-mail programs will be similar but may take a little snooping around.
<><>Go to: Tool (main bar) > Options > Composition. On this page go to "Send and HTML Options" near the bottom. You will see "Configure text format behavior" and a button called "send options". Press button. In the Text Format box at the top change "convert the message to plain text" to "send message in both plain text and html" by pressing the down arrow and highlighting.Press OK buttons all the way out. <> <> Mark Sullivan <> <>
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