Plain text/non HTML posting

Plain text /non HTML posting

This is a communal effort of the SOLVENCY group on plain text posting. THANKS everyone! Not complete by any means. Suggestions welcome.

for YAHOO, to use plain text: find Mail Options
General Preferences
Composing E-mails
Mode:
Compose messages as color and graphics Compose messages as plain text
(choose radio button for plain text)
SAVE for this to be effective.

Gmail: choose 'plain text' in the bar above the box in which you compose the message
This is effective by each email.

Outlook:
In the New Message window, the FORMAT command has two options: RICH TEXT or PLAIN TEXT.  Whichever has a dot beside it is what you are using.
This is effective per email.

AOL:
Right click on the message, and choose: 'Compose as plain text.'
This is effective per email.

Each ISP (email provider) has its own protocol.; Some require you to choose for each session, some by each email.

If you use a beautiful background or stationery or font, it will appear in the digest sometimes as a thousand characters of gibberish. You might want to save that for individuals who can really appreciate its value! my suggestion: just say no to colored fonts, underlined or bold text, italics, graphics, stationery, animation, your beautiful signature. Let your individuality show forth in your posts. Personality has a way of outing without the bells and whistles.

If you have AOL, you can clear the background by right-clicking and choosing CLEAR BACKGROUND.

I learned all this by checking out the HELP feature on various programs. If these tips do not help, I recommend HELP.

Some very very basic info is showing up today:
carrots ("<") (aka carets) are good
radio buttons (or any other HTML or graphic) make html, as do underlines, bolds, italics, font choices and sizes, color.

any html makes it all turn into html,

Backgrounds and animation make gibberish, as do graphics...
A plain text message usually allows to reader to specify the size of the type of his/her own monitor, which is very useful for people who need to magnify what they read.
But using HTML more than doubles the document size and puts gobbledygook in the digest .

Huge fonts take up no more HTML room than tiny ones

Note that cutting from an HTML document and pasting directly into your document will change your document to HTML.Pasting into NotePad will "wash" the code out, and it can then be pasted into your document without causing your email program to convert your document to HTML.

>For very computer literate people, this may seem ridiculous.
> However, I am computer literate; and I did not know what you
> are sharing here, in your last sentence! That is, that even a tiny
> bit of HTML will convert the whole thing to HTML!

QUESTION: hey, is that why all that stuff is shut off on the tool bar on the emails that are in purple, (that i no longer know how to make not be purple anymore), because i chose plain text for my basic new messages?
ANSWER: yes

QUESTION: and the times that tool bar is turned back on is when it's writing html?
ANSWER: yes

QUESTION: ; how do i know if i am posting in HTML or ASCII?
ANSWER Carrots are good. {">", aka carets) along the side of a quote, as opposed to a line (see below)

QUESTION: how do I change it if I am part of the problem?
ANSWER: Alas, it is different for every program, no easy answer.

QUESTION: and does changing it affect the rest of my email system all the time?
ANSWER: Choosing the "plain text default will still automatically use HTML to answer HTML..

QUESTION: and would i have to make sure to choose each time I post to the list? ANSWER: depends on your program, but probably, yes.

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Just to show how HMTL in your email shows up in the digest for some other people: these examples are of BLANK SPACE: just the fun formatting information the computer is sharing with all of us!

--=====================_1714635==.ALT
Content-Type: text/html; charset="us-ascii"
<x-sigsepZ>
</x-sigsep>
</STRONG></DIV>
<DIV><STRONG>&nbsp;
&=20
 & &>
 & &nbsp;=20
& & &
 =20 & & & &
 &&  =
& & & =20
& & &  & & &
 =20 & & &  =
& & & ;=20
& & &  & & & =20 & & &  =
& & &nbsp;=20
& & & ; & & & =20

<STYLE>
.AOLPlainTextBody {
    margin: 0px;
    font-family:
Tahoma, Verdana, Arial, Sans-Serif;
    font-size: 12px;
    color: #000;
    background-color: #fff;
margin: 10px;
}

.AOLAttachmentHeader {
    border-bottom: 2px solid #E9EAEB;
    background: #F9F9F9

AOLAttachmentHeader .Title {
    font: 11px Tahoma;
    font-weight: bold;
    color: #666666;
    background: #E9EAEB;
    padding: 3px 0px 1px 10px;

.AOLAttachmentHeader .FieldLabel {
    font: 11px Tahoma;
    font-weight: bold;
    color: #666666;
    padding:
1px 10px 1px 9px;