Re: Pre-Xy

["J. R. Fox" jr_fox@xxxxxxxxxx]

MargDelG@xxxxxxx wrote:

> I'm afraid I don't know how to "turn off html," as Robert Holmgren
recommended. When I want to comment to the list, I simply hit reply. I
wasn't aware that my text  > was coming out one way or another. When
a copy of what I have sent comes to me--as I am on the list and
therefore recieve whatever I have sent to it--it looks    > normal.

Some Win shennanigans may well put the kibosh on what I'm about to
say, but this *ought to* be under the control of your email software.
For example, I happen to be typing this in the email client of
Netscape Communicator. The very small type in Marguerite's message --
to which I'm replying -- is a dead giveaway that non plain-ASCII is in
force here. Another is that the field I'm now typing in is showing up
BOLD, when I never asked for bold. If the "blank" area in which you
happen to be typing is turning out some strange font, or red or blue
text, for example, like that in the source message or quotes
therefrom, that would be another tipoff. (I suppose it's like turning
on some attribute in Xy. You can see the *result*, but you won't see
the actual formatting codes generating it, until you look in Expanded
Mode.)

However, I've set the Mail Client up to default to plain text.
Furthermore, I've checked the box that says "Warn Me if Sending
Anything Else." So, with any such outbound message, like this one,
that screen will come up first, and I'll check the box for "Send in
Plain ASCII Only." (And my OS does not impose any funny gamesmanship,
so that won't be a factor.) So, you should be reading this post,
quotes and all, in the default Ascii text, which I would guess has to
be something like the generic 10 point Courier. Let me know if you
see it any other way, but I'm rather confident you won't.

The controls in *your* email software will of course be different, but
hopefully they do exist in some fashion, somewhere.

Jordan