Herb Chong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Rich Text is a effectively the same as HTML.
Herb (and William Robb), In Outlook express, there is a choice of plain text or "Rich Text (HTML)." But Outlook 2002 offers three modes: Plain Text, HTML, and Rich Text. I had thought that this meant Rich Text Format (RTF), the word processing format. Not exactly. David Chang-Sang's link explains why my Rich Text messages were coming across as HTML gobblety-gook. I found an explanation of the actual differences at http://www.uwec.edu/help/Outlook/MAIL-formatting.htm : "HTML format supports the the following features: text formatting, numbering, bullets, alignments, horizontal lines, backgrounds, HTML styles, and web pages. If a recipient's email program cannot read HTML, he or she will receive the message in plain text format with an attachment that can be opened on a web browser. "Rich Text supports these features: text formatting, bullets, color, and alignment. If you will be sending email messages with this format over the Internet, all recipients may not be able to read them." In any event, I've set Outlook to use plain text by default. It's not as pretty, but I have to switch to Plain Text when sending people photographs anyway, so I may as well use it full-time. [EMAIL PROTECTED]
