Quoting Paul McHale ([EMAIL PROTECTED]): > I agree that I am using MS Outlook. I think it is the best program > available for my use. I don't understand your difficulty. I forwarded the > message to my linux server and opened it with mutt. It came across in plain > text. I double checked the outlook transmit message settings and they are > set to plain text !
I hadn't noticed you were posting in html until Steve pointed it out in no uncertain terms. But that's because I'm using mutt which displays the text/plain copy and ignores the text/html because it noticed multipart/alternative (which means only one need be shown). If I type v I get a menu of attachments which I can choose manually. Although I am surrounded by Outlook-droids, I have no idea whether your setting means to send plain text *as well* rather than send plain text *only*. > Is anyone else noticing this problem of my message posting in HTML ??? > > As far as breaking the thread, what are refering to? > > Quoting the wrong way. Feel free to expand on this one ... It *is* horrible. The message you are replying to is added to the end of your new contribution. This makes it impossible to comment on a message in a paragraph by paragraph way (as I'm doing). It's like trying to conduct a family conversation when you're not allowed to interrupt father until he's finished a one-hour lecture. It also encourages people to return the entire thread so far when all they're adding is a one-line comment (not that I'm accusing you of this). > What e-mail client are you using ? You see, as I've already told you which client I use, I would delete that line and not make this comment, rather than sending it all back to you as quotation at the end of my message. And I would delete all this stuff: > paul > > -----Original Message----- > From: Steve Lamb [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, December 02, 1999 4:45 AM > To: Paul McHale > Cc: Daniel Yang; debian-user@lists.debian.org > Subject: OT: WHAT THE F**K!!! (Was: Re: Looking for right ISP) > Importance: Low > etc. etc. including signatures, multiple copies of the Unsubscribe? lines. Mind you, there are people who *love* this stuff, who insist that every message should contain the full reverse-order history of the entire thread, and get religious about it. Steve Lamb has a different way of putting all this, and I know people who wouldn't see his posting because the !!! in the Subject header sends it straight into the bit bucket. Cheers, -- Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tel: +44 1908 653 739 Fax: +44 1908 655 151 Snail: David Wright, Earth Science Dept., Milton Keynes, England, MK7 6AA Disclaimer: These addresses are only for reaching me, and do not signify official stationery. Views expressed here are either my own or plagiarised.