Outlook and Outlook Express settings....

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Greeting Saints that have MS Outlook or MS Outlook Express,

Seems like there's been a rash of posts as of recent that we're *zotting*
from distribution because they come through with html markup (the same as
web pages) to supposedly dress up a post to being snazzier than it really
needed to be.

This is what the Netiquette document says about attachments and MIME 
extensions... below it is how to turn off the terribly awful standard
that comes as a default setting in MS Outlook/Outlook Express.

                 --->>from the netiquette document<<---

Does the post you're sending have "attachments"?

You may or may not realize it, but your e-mail client may very well be
sending your e-mail in "chunks" called "attachments". It's common to have
e-mail delivered in MIME format. MIME stands for Multipart Internet Message
Extension (I think). Also, your e-mail client may also *code* your messages
in some kind of cryptography or html enhancements. Or, you may have a
really great testimony that's in a MS Word document that you'd like to
share with everyone on the list. If any of these are the case, you can be
pretty well assured that you're post won't be approved by the moderators.

Why?

Because not everybody on the list has software that will successfuly decode
the attachment. A very real situation. Also, realize that if you've
attached a word processing document, the listprocessor will often garble
the attachment to the point where it'll be completely unusable.

You'll probably be warned from the moderators about attachments before they
just start discarding the message from distribution. If there's a setting
for your e-mail client, set it to "Plain Text". That is the combination
that works best for all.

--------------------------end of netiquette section----------------------

If you want to turn it off in Outlook Express, click on Tools|Options|"Send"
tab, then check the "Plain Text" radio button, then press the "Settings"
button next to it and choose "MIME" encoding with the drop-down menu having
a value of "none".

Bro "a service of your friendly neighborhood moderator" Tyler
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