Tony wrote: >> Your emails arrive here in two versions. One is Plain text and >> other is fancy Html text.
Wayne asks: > You get two messages ? Tony's right, Wayne, but his brevity has confused you slightly... When you send an e-mail message in plain text, the actual message text that is sent through the system consists of a header block containing all the routing information needed for delivery, followed by the simple text of your message. No problem! Whenever you send a message in rich-text or HTML format, your message now consists of at least three parts: The message headers; a plain-text version of your message; the formatted version of your message, including all the embedded codes that convey the formatting. In an average, brief message sent that way, the headers and plain text version of the message taken together are seldom even half the bulk of the fancy formatted version of the message. The whole thing goes through the system as one chunk, and whether the person at the other end reads the plain or formatted version depends on the settings they've chosen in their e-mail system; and whether the formatting works as intended depends on the programs on both ends being reasonably well crafted and adhering to similar standards... which Microsoft has always been notorious for ignoring, going their own way to the detriment of the rest of us. <sigh> This is what's led us to the place we're at today. Programs like Eudora, Pegasus, and others, try their best to adhere to universal (outside of Microsoft) standards, while Microsoft has created competing and poorly documented message formats that everyone else has had to try to reverse engineer to achieve compatibility. Meanwhile, speaking of arrogance, Microsoft frequently ignores or implements poorly formats that it didn't create. One good example is the MIME format digest sent out by this list's server. Microsoft Outlook does a positively *terrible* job of presenting the digest version, while well designed mail programs, such as Eudora or Pegasus, have never had any problem with it at all. So plain text remains the least common denominator in e-mail. The more people use it the better! Be well, Mike D. > Morning Tony, > > >> At 09:07 AM 7/6/2008, you wrote: > >Your emails arrive here in two versions. One is Plain text and other is > > fancy Html text. > > >I am sure that your emailer is sending out the two versions. > You get two messages ? > > I get two from some people from time to time, > > However, they both look just alike. > > How come I do not get TWO messages back, if it sends our two ? > > Looks like the List Archives would show two, and on and on. > > >You need to change a setting in your eudora to turn off the fancy text > > version. Here below is an example of the html part. I am sure that > >your emailer is sending out the two versions. > > What you sent to me looks perfect. No problem with anything. > > More on your statements later......................... > > In Twenty Years and well over 1,000,000 messages, > no one has told me that before. > > ( Same old mailer and Same old settings ) > > Wayne > > ===================================== > > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: [email protected] > > Address Off-Topic messages to: [email protected] > > The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <[email protected]> > > [Mike Devour, Citizen, Patriot, Libertarian] [[email protected] ] [Speaking only for myself... ]
