I use Thunderbird for email and its address book allows me to 
specify on a per-address basis whether to use HTML or plain-text (as do 
other email apps.)  I default to HTML but have made the modification for 
this list to use plain text.  I guess we'll see how my first post after 
many years as a silent subscriber looks. Finally something to contribute!

     Cheers,

     Bill

On 3/9/14, 7:13 PM, Kevin Mac Donnell wrote:
> This is a test of my own. Every once in a blue moon OE prompts me with the
> option to change a message to plain text when I press the "send" button, as
> when I send a message to the MTF. My guess is that there's a setting in OE
> that triggers this prompt, but I have no idea which setting that would be,
> and will leave it to somebody more techish to figure that out.
>
> Kevin
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: Sunday, March 09, 2014 8:18 PM
> Subject: Re: Typography test!
>
>
>> ------=_Part_219721_1232376365.1394414288151
>> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8
>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
>>
>> I don't know about the calamari, but the ampersands and equal signs are
>> now things of the past!  Thanks to Kevin for mentioning the cure in
>> passing.  This may mean that you might want to switch back to HTML for
>> other messages, but I haven't scoped that out yet.
>>
>> Enjoy!
>>
>> Ben
>>
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>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Charles Cogar
>> To: TWAIN-L
>> Sent: March 9, 2014 at 5:29 PM
>> Subject: Re: Typography test!
>>
>> Huzzah, huuzah!
>>
>> I sit out here on the sidelines wading through octothorpes, ampersands and
>> equal signs translating the text between.
>>
>> Thanks to yous guys, those days are over!
>>
>> Charles Cogar
>> Omaha, Nebraska
>>
>>
>> -----Or  Twain Forum [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of Arianne
>> Sent: Sunday, March 9, 2014 5:22 PM
>> To: [log in to unmask]
>> Subject: Re: Typography test!
>>
>> YEA!  It worked.  I'm so glad you stumbled upon the cure so that we can
>> share it with others with the same problem.
>> Arianne Laidlaw
>>
>>
>>
>> On Sat, Mar 8, 2014 at 3:51 PM, Ben Wise <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>>
>>> I hope you will excuse the intrusion, but after a recent
>>> (inadvertently
>>> offlist) exchange with Kevin Mac Donnell, I want to see if setting my
>>> email preferences on plain text instead of html, as he does,  will
>>> eliminate the garbage characters, since his post was notably without
>>> them. If it does, it may be the long-sought, if makeshift,  solution to
>> our typo woes.
>>>> This is only a test.  If I had anything meaningful to say I'd have
>>> said it a long time ago.
>>>> Ben
>>
>>
>> --
>> Arianne Laidlaw A '58
>>
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