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| Date: | Tue, 25 Jan 2005 18:29:00 -0600 |
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Katherine Cordy's message presented an opportunity for me to repeat my
periodic rant/plea to urge Conch-L subscribers to use plain text format
for their messages. I have included a greatly shortened, edited
quotation from her message as an example. I would much prefer to read
informative messages about shells (including Katherine's) without having
to wade through endless lines of formatting commands. :)
The quotation below shows how your messages appear in the Conch-L digest
when you use HTML or even worse Microsoft Word as an editor for your
e-mail messages. You can see that the bulk of the message consists of
formatting commands rather than useful text. For those of us who
subscribe to Conch-L in Digest format, such messages are much more
difficult to read. For those in foreign countries whose ISP's charge
for actual usage, such messages cause them added expense. The simple
solution is using plain text format for messages to the list. That
option is available in all e-mail programs. It would require a very
large message in plain text to exceed the list's size limit.
Please do not view my message as a criticism of Katherine or any other
member of the list, as I appreciate the contributions all of you make to
further our knowledge of conchology.
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> Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 05:17:19 -0500
> From: Katherine Cordy <[log in to unmask]> > Subject: Winners At Space Coast Shell Festival
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> I have tried to post this three times. It keeps coming back as over 250
> lines???? I don't understand.
> Content-Type: text/html;
> charset="us-ascii"
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
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> <html> >
> <head> > <META HTTP-EQUIV=3D"Content-Type" CONTENT=3D"text/html; =
> charset=3Dus-ascii"> >
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> <meta name=3DGenerator content=3D"Microsoft Word 10 (filtered)"> >
> <style> > <!--
> /* Font Definitions */
> @font-face
> {font-family:Arriba;
> panose-1:4 4 4 5 12 2 2 2 2 3;}
> /* Style Definitions */
> p.MsoNormal, li.MsoNormal, div.MsoNormal
> {margin:0in;
> margin-bottom:.0001pt;
> font-size:12.0pt;
> font-family:"Times New Roman";}
> a:link, span.MsoHyperlink
> {color:blue;
> text-decoration:underline;}
> a:visited, span.MsoHyperlinkFollowed
> {color:purple;
> text-decoration:underline;}
> span.EmailStyle17
> {font-family:Arial;
> color:windowtext;}
> @page Section1
> {size:8.5in 11.0in;
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> <body lang=3DEN-US link=3Dblue vlink=3Dpurple> >
> <div class=3DSection1> >
> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
> style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
> font-family:Arial'>I have tried to post this three times. It keeps =
> coming back
> as over 250 lines???? I don’t understand.</span></font></p> >
> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
> style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
> font-family:Arial'> </span></font></p> >
> <p class=3DMsoNormal><font size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
> style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;
> font-family:Arial'>The Masters Trophy sponsored by the =
> </span></font><font
> size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
> style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Bailey</span></font><font
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> style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font
> size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
> style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'>Mathews</span></font><font
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> style=3D'font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Arial'> </span></font><font
> size=3D2 face=3DArial><span =
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Cecil N. Bankston
Baton Rouge, LA
USA
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