It's a new year and I think we should all thank Carol for the great job she does on this list. She volunteers her time to maintain the list and the sister web site. I particularly appreciate her efforts since I'm an independent contractor myself and know how tough it can be to use time for volunteer efforts. I happen to receive the digest version of the messages, and for those of you who don't, leaving HTML turned on can take a three message digest and turn it into three pages of very difficult to read text. I'll admit to even deleting the digest without reading it when it contains eight or ten messages with a bunch of HTML. And this is the only list I subscribe to that will even accept HTML posts. Many simply delete them automatically at the server. So, what can we do? If you use outlook express, it is very simple: On the main menu, Under Tools....Options, click on the "Send" tab on the top and check the box that reads "Reply to messages in the format in which they were sent". This is really polite for all your email since many users who send messages in plain text don't have an email reader that does HTML and covers replies to existing messages. Just keep in mind that if someone sends you an HTML message and you want to reply in text, you'll have to change it as noted below. Second, just add an entry in your address book for [EMAIL PROTECTED] and on the "Name" tab check the box that says "Send email using plain text only". The only case these two options won't catch is if you receive an HTML email from the list. Then you would have to go to "Format" on the message reply and change it to text, which works great and strips out the HTML from the original message. But if we all do the first two things, this won't come up anyway.
Have a great New Year everyone! > Subject: [blackbelly] IMPORTANT: how to change your email address and other > reminders about using this list > Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Here is a reminder about some of the most important things to remember > about this listserv: >.... Every time you post a message that contains HTML text, you cost me at least 5 > minutes of my time because I must manually approve your message. So if you > don't have time to turn off HTML, I may not have time to manually approve > your post to the list. It is that simple. > To learn how to turn off HTML text in your email program, go to http://www.expita.com/nomime.html. > Carol Elkins > List Owner =============================================== This message is from the Barbados Blackbelly Sheep mailing list (http://www.awrittenword.com/listserv/index.html). To respond to this message, send e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe or change your membership options, go to http://lists.coyotenet.net/mailman/listinfo/blackbelly To search the archives, go to http://www.mail-archive.com/[EMAIL PROTECTED]/
