Ann, part of the problem is AOL 6.0 is crippled. Apparently
users can not turn off HTML for their email. That is why the
small strange type. Your using large type is the reason even
normal text base stuff goes off the screen. When you make your
default type bigger, your are reducing the number of characters
the screen can display. Normal type displays 80 characters
across the screen. When you enlarge your type you may only be
able to see 32 or 40 characters. Then you would have the type
running off the screen or have truncated lines depending on
whether you have word wrap turned on or not.
--Tom
Ann Sanfedele wrote:
>
> Len I have Netscape for my email and have my preferences set as your
> example below.
> What is getting ME nuts is when I receive mail and the sender and
> subject are in my
> chosen font and size (everything is BIG on my machine) and the body of
> the message says
> this:
>
> Part 1.1
> Type:
> Plain Text (text/plain)
> Encoding:
> 7bit
>
> Sometimes when I open these (annoying enough to have to) the window
> margins
> are respected and sometimes the lines go dancing off the end of the
> screen. That
> aspect of it clearly must be in the control of the sender. Even when
> the margins are
> respected, the plain text in these cases ignores my incoming preferences
> and gives
> me small, faint non proportional font type. - right, I know, plain
> text.
> More often than not it is from someone on AOL - but not always. Some
> aol stuff I get
> changes to my fonts and preferences for quotes, etc.
>
> Anyone suffering in the same manner or know why this is happening?
> I'm using Netscape 4.6
> Oh yeah, I did an experiment and forwarded one of those posts to my aol
> backup address -
> in that case it was all plain text and repeated, the second time with
> HTML code stuff in it.
>
> annsan the easily confused
>
> Len Paris wrote:
>
> > And neither can I tell me how to view them. It's not a
> > capability of Outlook, or I wouldn't have asked. However, his
> > problem is easily solved in Netscape by following the path:
> >
> > Edit
> > Preferences
> > Mail & Newsgroups
> > Messages
> > Check the box "Wrap incoming, plain text messages to window
> > width.
> >
> > That will solve His problems with long lines.
> >
> > Len
> > ---
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Shot [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > > Sent: Sunday, January 21, 2001 5:43 PM
> > > To: Len Paris
> > > Subject: RE: Formatting discussions - a suggestion
> > >
> > >
> > > Hello.
> > >
> > > > Which e-mail program are you using?
> > > >
> > > > Len
> > >
> > > He's using Mozilla 4.72 [en]C-DIAL (Win95; U).
> > >
> > > One can easily check this by seeing the headers of
> > > any message. Can't
> > > tell you how to view them in your Microsoft Outlook
> > > 8.5, Build
> > > 4.71.2377.0, though.
> > >
> > > :-)
> > >
> > > Pozdrav
> > > -- Shot
> > >
> > > ----------------------------------------------->
> > > http://shot.prv.pl/
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> > > PS+(++) PGP- t 5 X- R tv- b++>+++ DI D G++ e>*
> > > h-->--- r++>+++ y+**
> > > ---------------------> Geek Code Decoder:
> > http://www.ebb.org/ungeek/
> > They couldn't hit an elephant at this dist...
> > -- General John Sedgwick, Union commander in the Civil War,
> > speaking
> > his last words as he was watching enemy troops during the Battle
> > of
> > Spotsylvania Court House
> >
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