<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=2>In a message dated 9/19/2001 9:25:52 PM Eastern Daylight Time, wulfhafdan@yahoo.com writes:
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<BR><BLOCKQUOTE TYPE=CITE style="BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px"><B>I hope the spaces I added to the above cause it to show up on the
<BR>computers of those people that mindlessly ignore the convention that
<BR>posts to this list be IN TEXT FORMAT ONLY the same way as those of us
<BR>that abide by this convention see it. I also hope it irritates them as
<BR>much as it does us! I am not intending to single any one persons out, I
<BR>just took a random mailing and deleted the correctly formated postings.
<BR>My apologies to those whose postings were used as an example - this is
<BR>not intended as a personal attack. Please note that buried in all the
<BR>extraneous crap of message #4 is simply a 14 word sentance and a short
<BR>URL.
<BR> This stuff really does tend to put the 'mess' in the word
<BR>'message'. It also detracts from what you are trying to say and thus
<BR>dilutes the import of your posting (sadly, most of the postings of this
<BR>nature are of valuable content from intelligent educated people too).
<BR>If you don't know how to set your computer to send a text only mailing
<BR>please do the rest of us a favor and refrain from posting until you
<BR>have sought and found some assistance - as a last resort I might
<BR>suggest a private mailing to the listmaster (sorry to dump that on you
<BR>but it's begining to get to where it seems like 2/5 of the postings are
<BR>in mime/html format.
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<BR>now I've thrown out this two cents worth, I'll go back to lurking...
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<BR>'wulf };-}
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<BR>Sorry to point this out to you Wulf, but by following all that "HTML crap" with your remarks, you have just sent a message to the list in HTML...just as you admonished others about doing.
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<BR>It sure is hard to control something you have no control over.
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<BR>Mike B.
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<BR>Who suffers AoHell for it's other features and is not going to stop. But I will say that people don't complain when I use a setting of 10 point Arial for my messages.
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