I think this is the exact point which hasn't fully been understood yet by the original poster - I believe he thinks that if it looks nice on HIS computer, it will arrive the same at some other computer.
But this is not the case, exactly as Tim and others have tried to explain. Just because other mail programs fool you into believing you've wrapped something into something you like - and that is how it will look when arriving on all other email clients in the world - does not mean that PM is lacking; I'd rather say that PM is just more 'honest' here in the sense of not putting a fake eye candy ability into their interface. ---marlyse --------------- former message(s) quotes: ---------------- >On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 10:19 am -0700, tass wrote: > >>As I mentioned earlier, this is my VERY first experience with NOT being able >>to decide how MY letter should look/read. And being used to that kind of >>basic freedom, it is not only annoying, it looks stupid at the other end and >>makes the writer look like an idiot - like they never even learned how to >>formulate a letter. Not to mention breaking links making that function of >>email useless. > >Well, as Wayne explained, it doesn't matter how nicely you format your >email, you have no control over what various servers will do to it on its >travels. (In fact, one of your recent posts to this list was obviously >set to something like 120 chars, and arrived here broken into alternating >short/long lines.)
