Tom Rittenhouse wrote:
> 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.
Normal plain text stuff DOESNT go off my screen. I have the wrap to
window thing turned on in my Netscape preferences.
> When you make your
> default type bigger, your are reducing the number of characters
> the screen can display.
No shit, sherlock -
> Normal type displays 80 characters
> across the screen.
Not since the DOS days, baby - there aint no such thing as normal in WINDOZE
> When you enlarge your type you may only be
> able to see 32 or 40 characters.
I have a 17"monitor - have the display at 800x600, bold variable width 11
font overriding
all incoming stuff. ITs lovely. I have the setting set to wrap to window
width.
> 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
Tom the mystery is only when I receive posts that have , instead of text in
the body of
the mail, the following:
> > Part 1.1
> > Type Plain Text (text/plain) Encoding: 7bit
> >
Is this MIME? Is that the problem???
Anyway, sometimes when I open these it is plain text, not bolded (of course)
but nicely
all of the mail appears right here on my screen. But other times the entire
body of the
text goes streaming off into lala land in one continuous line - as if it were
written in a line editor that permitted 200 to 300 characters. Mostly these
post come from AOL folk.
IF I highlight and copy to a blank Composer page, it falls into line!
Not only that, but I get plenty of mail from some friends on AOL which is
perfectly "normal"
But then, they may still have 5.0...
I would like to think this isn't unsolvable. oh well.
Just for the record, I've been working with computers since 1961 which means
I tend
to sneer at all the windows frills and get really annoyed at a whole lot of
things it does
and doesn't do. I'm trying to adjust - photoshop helps, I like that. But Id
give a lot
to have a unix shell account back and do my mail in pine!
Thanks for your input though - maybe someone will figure it all out.
annsan
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