OSX's Mail program is quite capable of decoding the MIME/HTML that gets
posted, as are most modern mail readers. The problem comes for all us
poor digest readers, where HTML looks something like this:
FACE=3Darial,helvetica><FONT SIZE=3D2 FAMILY=3D"SANSSERIF" =
FACE=3D"Arial"=20
LANG=3D"0">In a >message dated 1/11/2002 8:29:23 AM Pacific =
Standard Time,=20
<A href=3D"mailto:Pauls0627@xxxxxxx";>Pauls0627@xxxxxxx</A>=20
writes:<BR><BR>><BR><BR></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>etc</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>I don't know what you're using to compose your =
email.=20
Sometimes if you reply</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>to an email, HTML will be generated if the original =
contained=20
something that</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2>wasn't plain text.</FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=3D2></FONT> </DIV>
Now, hopefully everyone's mail reader didn't decode that, and can see
what the digest readers have to wade through. You can see where wading
through 20-30 pages of this could get a little tiring. So again, more
gentle reminders from digest-land to please turn off HTML and use plain
text only. Thanks!
Mark Marr-Lyon
>I'm using a Macintosh, OS X, and Mail, and it's plain text to me. In
>fact, all of the messages that came form AOL 7 were read by my setup as
>plain text. Could it be that the receivers have something set
>incorrectly?
>
>Allan
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