Re: Text formats - Re: Need Ozone

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Original poster: "Chip Atkinson by way of Terry Fritz <twftesla-at-uswest-dot-net>" <chip-at-pupman-dot-com>

I still prefer to use plain text on the list.  Not everyone uses html
capable mail readers and I have yet to see a mail reader that barfs on
plain text.

Chip

On Sun, 8 Apr 2001, Terry Fritz wrote:

> Hi Adam and Tom,
> 
> The Tesla list is text only based.  "I" strip attachments to stop the
> possible spread of viruses but I typically post them to my site and add
> pointers to them.  All HTML and fancy text is lost in the translation.
> 
> This was originally done to help those that could not read HTML and fancy
> text formats.  
> 
> I always ask that added text be made clear through the use of spaces and
such.
> 
> The best format is plain text as displayed by the "Courier New" font with
> 80 characters per line and old quoted text denoted by ">".
> 
> If you think this is reaching the point of getting "old", let me and/or
> Chip know and maybe it is time for some evolution...  Remember that there
> or users in many countries using all kinds of mail readers so we try for
> the least common denominator so everyone can read the posts.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> 	Terry
> 
> 
> 
> At 10:46 PM 4/8/2001 -0400, you wrote:
> >Thanks Adam that would be most appreciated.
> >
> >Cheers
> >
> >Tom
> >
> >"Attention Webmaster" what is the correct format to post to the Tesla
List - 
> >I have used (text, html
> >& text and html) and they
> >all are being trunkcated / hard to read.
> >
> >
>