 The magazine of the Melbourne PC User Group Just the mail, please, hold the formatting Carol Daniels cad@melbpc.org.au |
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OK, I admit it, sometimes I like receiving HTML-formatted e-mail. Sometimes, but not always. In fact hardly ever. But I will admit to occasionally finding the formatting capabilities useful in the communication process.
I get cheesed off though when I receive HTML-formatted e-mail when there is no real communication gain from the formatting. It's just plain irritating. Sure I could pick out the text from between the HTML tags, or launch my Web browser to view the message...but I rarely bother. I won't even say how I feel about HTML-formatted postings to newsgroup (it's considered a serious breach of netiquette by most experienced Internauts), not in front of the littlies, at least.
However, I've discovered that many send HTML-formatted messages (e-mail and postings to newsgroups) unknowingly or unintentionally. If you've received complaints about sending HTML documents to newsgroups or as e-mail messages, and don't know how to rectify the situation, here's some help for you.
I've only written instructions for the programs I had access to at the time this irritation finally got to me. If members using other programs supply additional instructions I'll publish them in a future issue.
Eudora 4.x
- From the menu bar select "Tools" then "Options"
- Click "Styled Text"
- Select "Send plain text only"
- Click OK.
- From the menu bar, select "Edit", then "Preferences" then "Mail and News Preferences"
- Select tab "Compositions"
- Un-check (remove) the check mark for "Use HTML Composition Window"
- Check "Allow 8-bit"
- Un-check "MIME compliant"
- Click OK.
- From the menu bar select "News" then "Options"
- Select the "Send" tab
- Check the "Plain Text" box
- Click OK.
- From the menu bar, select "Tools" then "Options"
- Select the "Send" tab
- Check the "Plain Text" boxes in both Mail and News
- Click OK.
