In response to Alexander Staubo <alex@purefiction.net>:
> On Apr 9, 2007, at 18:10 , Gerard Seibert wrote:
>
> > On Mon, 9 Apr 2007 10:34:22 -0500
> > Erik Jones <erik@myemma.com> wrote:
> >
> >> Hmmm... I didn't have anything HTML set anywhere. I did however
> >> have message formatting set to Rich-Text (although I was unaware)
> >> and have switched that to plaintext. This look better?
> >
> > Yes, much better. I believe that 'rich text' is essentially HTML,
> > although I might be mistaken. I know that 'GMail' users have that
> > problem all the time. Of course 'GMail' users have lots of other
> > problems also.
>
> Erik has actually been posting messages as "multipart/alternative",
> where the message is included in both 7-bit plaintext *and* HTML, the
> idea being that the mail viewer itself can pick the format it knows
> best. You are simply using a mail reader which prioritizes HTML;
> perhaps it has a setting to let you prefer plaintext?
<email religion>
Sylpheed has this option, which is one of the reasons I use it.
</email religion>
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Bill Moran
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