Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 13:55:01 -0400
Reply-To: Pierre A Lachance <palachance@CCAPCABLE.COM>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Pierre A Lachance <palachance@CCAPCABLE.COM>
Subject: Re: netiquette and HTML ???
Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
david,
just went to outlook express, tools, options, then compose
compose font:: arial 9pt mail
arial 9pt news
stationery : as for composing new HTML message, I do not have any selection
on mail or news... could this be the or my problem ???? I really
thought that coming back from comic sans ms bold to normal writing (arial)
everything would be ok...
thanks anyhow for your help
pierre
----- Original Message -----
From: David Beierl <dbeierl@ibm.net>
To: Pierre A Lachance <palachance@ccapcable.com>
Sent: 27 octobre, 1999 10:34
Subject: Re: netiquette and HTML ???
> Hi Pierre -- not to worry. It's mostly MicroSoft's fault anyway. Outlook
> Express comes with the expectation that all your mail will be sent as
> HTML. This lets you choose fonts and do all sorts of fancy things, but
> also creates very large messages that are also very difficult to read
> unless your correspondent's mailer understands HTML (look at the bottom of
> this msg for what Outlook actually sent me on your behalf). Outlook has a
> setting that will tell it not to use HTML, but I think it's hard to
> find. I will try to find it, but if not (and if you can't find it
> yourself) someone on the list will know how to disable it.
>
> cheers
> david
>
>
>
> At 09:43 10/27/99 , Pierre A Lachance wrote:
> >David
> >sorry... i never wrote or been part of a mailing list before, only for
> >the past month since i discovered
> >vanagon.com. i personnally do not know anything about netiquette, so i
> >will have to reeducate myself with what to do, not do or what i can
> >do when writing or answering... thank you for letting me know... maybe
> >somebody should have told me before ! I would have tried to correct
> >myself for the better of all that read me.
> >
> >yours truly
> >
> >pierre a. lachance
> >lac beauport, pq
> >zephyr 85
> >beetle 00
>
>
> <x-html>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> <HTML><HEAD>
> <META content="text/html; charset=x-user-defined" http-equiv=Content-Type>
> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR>
> <STYLE></STYLE>
> </HEAD>
> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT size=3>David</FONT></FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>sorry... i never wrote or been part of a
mailing
> list before, only for the past month since i discovered
</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>vanagon.com. i personnally do not know
anything
> about netiquette, so i will have to reeducate myself with what to
do,
> not
> do or what i can do when writing or answering... thank you for
> letting me
> know... maybe somebody should have told me before ! I would have
> tried to
> correct myself for the better of all that read me.</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>yours truly</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV> </DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>pierre a. lachance</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>lac beauport, pq</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>zephyr 85</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>beetle 00</FONT> </DIV></BODY></HTML>
> </x-html>
>
>
> David Beierl - dbeierl@ibm.net
>
| 
