>>>Brian White wrote: >> >I read my mail with pine. Occasionally I get mail from this list and >> >from others that has HTML markup embedded within it. What causes this? >> >> Netscape, for one. It sends mail/news as html by default (and of course i >t >> won't tell you that.) > >Actually, it's communicator 4.0 (beta) that does that. The older versions >of netscape don't. You can also turn this "feature" off from the preference >s >menu ... after someone's flamed you for sending html. After that you may notice that formatting toolbar's gone.
I wonder if it's an oversight on Netscrape's part -- obviously, the right thing to do was to make text mode the default -- or a [pitiful] attempt at MS marketing strategies. :-) -- Dimitri -- TO UNSUBSCRIBE FROM THIS MAILING LIST: e-mail the word "unsubscribe" to [EMAIL PROTECTED] . Trouble? e-mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] .