This is interesting. Is the formatting decree responsible for some emails coming through with wierd symbols and squiggles implanted throughout the message? If so, why isn't the plain text coming through?
I'm going to examine my email settings and see if I can set my mailer for plain text only. I thought that was an automatic setting and that you'd have to request something else to get something else. Mind wandering here -- do kids get taught these basics somewhere along the line in their general education? I was way too late for computer education (schooling in the 60's) -- but I did take a night class in the early 90's when I got my first computer. Unfortunately, it was all about basic computer language (Doss), and formatting disks, etc. I'm not sure Windows even existed then -- it might have, but my computer screen opened to a flashing cursor on a black screen, and you had to go from there. I don't think I could do that today -- all of that has been left way behind. MA ________________________________ From: M. G. Devour [email protected] The standards for e-mail formatting decree that every message contains one copy of just the plain text and another complete copy of the same text with all the additional codes needed to give it the fancy formatting. So, roughly speaking, the formatted version bloats up to 1.5 to 2 times as big as the plain text version, and each formatted message contains one copy of each. If you set your mailer to use only plain text, then only that one copy gets sent, and you can easily transmit several times as much text.
