Cohousing-L Mailing List: No HTML postings please (2)

[Fred H Olson (fholson]

This message is a rework of the earlier one with significant changes.

Friday I re-posted a message which some users found unreadable (without a
subject line by mistake, sorry). The problem message was in HTML format
which causes other problems also. Messages posted to cohousing-L that
include HTML often come out poorly formated or include "garbage" or with
color (depending on how you view them).

PLEASE DO NOT POST HTML to Cohousing-L.

Microsoft Outlook Express users, please see a note below to you
specifically.

Ironically I "approved" the problem message.  I have recently learned how
to hold messages with html for approval.  However I have not figured out
how to strip the html out of messages or how to handle them otherwise
automatically.  I am going to try manually stripping and forwarding them
with a preamble 

 James Doe <james [at] msn.com>
 is the author of the message below. It was posted by Fred the Cohousing-L
 list manager <fholson [at] cohousing.org> because the message included HTML ;  
 Please do not post HTML, see    <this message at>
   http://csf.colorado.edu/cohousing/2001/msg01672.html    **
 --------------------  FORWARDED MESSAGE FOLLOWS --------------------

We'll see if I can keep up.  Getting "approval" does introduce some delay
(typically less than 24 hours - depends on when I check in) in your
message getting posted so I urge you to figure out how to not send it.
If your message gets this preamble, please look into it.

** This is a forward reference, I hope it ends up here, if not try 1673


Microsoft Outlook Express and HTML

Often messages include HTML because the poster has "HTML encoding" set in
Microsoft Outlook Express which sends messages as both text and html
format (html format is the format for the WWW).  I think Outlook Express
comes with html set.

I strongly encourage Microsoft Outlook Express users turn OFF html
encoding. I think this is done via the Tools / Options / Sending menu;
then check Plain Text (rather than Html encoding); then check "apply".

Nte that apparently Outlook Express will respond to messages with HTML
even if it is turned off as encouraged above.  In which case just check to
see that it is turned off.

Fred, list manager

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Fred H. Olson  fholson [at] cohousing.org    Minneapolis,MN   55411
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