Post by WahdidahPost by AnybodyPost by WahdidahPost by AnybodyThe dots I can live with. It's the HTML that's painful, and it only
seems to appear in some of your messages. :-(
When I send out emails.......they look normal to me.....you can
obviously tell that I use my computer for shopping...lol......how do I
get rid of this html thing? Is there something I can do in the preferences?
This message didn't have the HTML stuff. I'm guessing that you
sometimes use fancy fonts / colours / styles or images and possibly
using links or email addresses. Any of those would cause HTML code to
be produced.
It depends on the application you're using, but it's usually somewhere
in the Preferences / Options to use Plain Text or turning off use HTML.
Hey it worked! I turned off the HTML! Out of curiosity.........what did
the messages look like with HTML......they all look pretty much the same
to me....
They will look the same to you because your newsreader application was
using / can handle HTML, but to people with HTML turned off (depending
on the application) or with newsreader applications that don't display
HTML at all you get a load of HTML codes through the message, just like
looking at the source code for a webpage. Depending on how much playing
with fonts, styles and colours you do, it can be tiresome to try and
read. In some cases (like your's) we were getting one copy of the text
with the extra HTML copy underneath. This extra coding and text means
the message takes up more room and takes longer to download.
Newsgroups and emails are meant to be plain text, not fancy bits and
pieces. HTML is meant just for webpages (and these days Help files
included with many applications).