----- Original Message -----
From: Chris Keil <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 12:25 PM
Subject: HTML, and why the list dislikes itRe: from Alison
>
> Sure. It's because HTML adds little "codes" into the message. A higher
end
> browser can say "hey, that's HTML!" and either choose to read or ignore
it.
> Some browsers cannot, however, and it comes across as a bunch of machine
> looking code. It tends to look scrambled, because your message (to me,
with
> OE 5.0) looks like it's in blue italics. However, these pretty blue
italics
> make reading it on certain newsreaders impossible, due to the imbedded
code
> that OE doesn't let you see. It's the same way the kak.worm virus worked;
> it sent little codes to mess with your machine. So it's considered polite
> in most circles to refrain from posting in HTML, because it adds
> considerable length to the message (due to the invisible code) and it
> renderers your message impossible to read for many.
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: ALISON <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, March 27, 2000 2:41 AM
> Subject: from Alison
>
>
> Im sorry some of you had problems with the e-mail I sent yesterday Im not
> sure why that should be. I changed my format to plain text from HTML after
> reading all the problems you were having on this list with viruses. I
have
> sent plain text to cavy lovers list no problem. Ive changed back to HTML
for
> this to see if it makes any difference.
> Thank you Amy for translating for me. How did you do it? Can anyone give
me
> a clue as to why this happened.
> Thanks, Alison
>
