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