I have a few questions about email formatting. I've used Entourage since it
was Emailer. There are times when I use HTML mail, but not many. One is when
I'm forced to use web clients for Yahoo groups to compose mail. The
macosx-support "mailing list" is such group one (I use the quotes derisively
because I find it impossible to respond to messages from that group without
going to the web interface -- probably because I receive the digest rather
than the individual messages).
On the Mac-L list, a user reported yesterday that a help link provided to
him was broken. Clearly, the only reason it was broken was that there was a
carriage return formatting code ("=20") buried right in the middle of the
URL.
I've seen these appear in ASCII text message replies I've posted to mailing
lists when I've used Entourage's "Auto Text Cleanup" tools" on a portion of
the message I've quoted in my reply. It's my understanding that they are
added to ASCII messages when some intermediary between my keyboard and the
recipient's email client cannot deal with line lengths beyond a certain
number of characters.
I have three questions about these bit/byte "weeds."
1. Is there anything ***I*** can do to avoid bedeviling recipients of my
messages with them (my guess is that one answer is "never use HTML mail.")
2. When they invade messages I receive, are there tools I can use to remove
them intelligently?
3. Why does Entourage's "Auto Text Cleanup" insert them into ASCII messages?
(OK, 4 questions)
4. Are there other mail clients that are smarter about not enabling them to
sneak into messages that I send, or smarter about helping me expunge them
once I'm bedeviled by them in an incoming message?
Jim Robertson
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