[RCSE] Microsoft IE users- here's how to actually do it!

[Scobie Puchtler or Sarah Felstiner]

As you can see from the message below posted by MSu1049321, (What an
interesting name, it's even more unusual than mine... What WERE his folks
thinking?) it's really helpful for a lot of the population on this list if
you send your messages to the exchange in the simple text-only format called
Plain Text, not the fancier microsoft version of HTML, which allows you
colors and typfaces and all sorts of whiz-bang factor. Microsoft starts you
out with the whizbang version, so if you want to send messages in Plain
Text, you have to get in there and make a change.

For those using Internet Explorer who are dying to be respectful and polite
to the RCSE but simply don't know how to make that setting change, here's
the deal. The change takes place just three or four unintuitive layers into
the controls for the program :), so you'll be there in a jiffy by just
following these (not obvious, as usual) steps :

Open the Program

On the top tool bar you'll see the word 'Tools' (To change something, like a
car tire, you need a Tool, right?)

Click on 'Tools', and a menu will drop down. Find the word 'Options'(I guess
its' the Options tool??). If you don't see the word 'Options' it's probably
because you are looking at an individual message window, and not the main
program window. Close the message window and go to the main program window
so that 'Internet Explorer' reads in the title band at the very top of your
screen. Find 'Tools', click on it, and you'll see 'Options'.

Click on 'Options', and you'll get a window with many tab titles. Choose the
tab called 'Mail Format'

You'll see a small text window. If the format listed in that Window is
'HTML', please change it by clicking on the little arrow button at the end
of the text window. That will give you several options. Please click on
'Plain Text'.  Then click on 'OK' at the bottom of that dialogue box and you
will be on your way to sending happy, less problematic messages to the
exchange. Congratulations.

Lift,
Scobie in Seattle



> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, April 02, 2001 3:45 PM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [RCSE] Re :a word about how you format your mail to RCSE
>
>
> Us poor slobs who have to get the digest version often have to wade thru
> multiple copies and duplicate HTML text versions of all the
> various posts to
> RCSE.
>
>  This duplication of posts can double the size of the files and
> the time to
> skim/read them. I am led to understand by those who know that the problem
> comes in the main from you folks who write-in messages using a certain
> product out of Redmond. (grin) But, all can be fixed simply, if you would
> take but an extra second and select a "plain text" formatting for your
> outgoing mail, at least to RCSE. Then your thoughts and opinions get a
> clearer shot as they go out to us in the ether.
>
> Please, give it a try. If you don't yet understand the scope of
> the trouble,
> subscribe to the digest version for a couple days and see it for yourself.
>
> Thanks for your kind attention. Thermals!
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