Date   : Tue, 03 Jul 2001 15:46:43 +0100
From   : Tim Fardell <tim.fardell@...>
Subject: Re: VIKING COLLECTION DISC

So how come I never saw any of these contentious messages, then? I'm
feeling dejected now :-(

"Fewell, Steve" wrote:
> 
> At 12:27 03/07/01 +0100, Phil McIntyre wrote:
> >I can't understand what his problem is.
> 
> Following on from Joel's comments:
> 
> Because not everyone has the ability to read HTML messages, the "standard"
> format for all messages sent to mailing lists should be "plain text".
> 
> Outlook allows different colours and font sizes to be embedded in a message,
> which are not compatible with "Plain Text".
> 
> In your third message, Outlook had formatted your reply, so that the mail
> you quoted was in a different colour to the text of your reply. In plain
> text, however, the usual method of quoting text is to use a '>' character in
> front of each quoted line. I think this is what gARetH was complaining
> about.
> 
> Your forth message came through correctly as "plain text", this is probably
> due to the fact that you were replying to a "plain text" message. There is a
> parameter setting for changing the sending format in Outlook.
> 
> Again, may I express that your contributions to this list are valued.
> 
> Steve.

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