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 > @ > Mac Donnell Rare Books > 9307 Glenlake Drive > Austin TX 78730 > 512-345-4139 > Member: ABAA, ILAB > ************************* > You may browse our books at > www.macdonnellrarebooks.com > > ----- 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 >> >> Sent from Xfinity Connect Mobile App >> >> -----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 >> >> ------=_Part_219721_1232376365.1394414288151-- >> >> >> >> ----- >> No virus found in this message. >> Checked by AVG - www.avg.com >> Version: 2014.0.4335 / Virus Database: 3722/7170 - Release Date: 03/09/14 >>