Jim, I can appreciate your need to keep the email coming into the reflector
as generic as possible, but I would suggest that rich text and HTML formats
are very quickly becoming the norm in the Internet world and not the
exception now. Most all newer versions of browsers support these formats,
they are all free for the downloading so I would suggest may be its time to
"rethink" your email policy of not accepting anything other than plain-text.
Of course, these new formats do come with a lot more overhead (larger size)
and I can see you wanting to avoid that!
Just my opinion, you run a great reflector!! 73....../k6sdw
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Lowman [mailto:jmlowman@ix.netcom.com]
Sent: Tuesday, January 23, 2001 5:28 PM
To: tentec list
Subject: [TenTec] Is your message not showing up on the list?
Gang, I try to keep the administrivia off here as much as possible, but
in view of the many list members writing to me to ask "Why isn't my
message showing up on the list?" I guess it bears repeating.
The tentec@contesting.com list, as well as the lists at qth.net, are
configured to reject HTML and any other sort of stylized text. Only
plain text postings are allowed.
Most people probably don't realize that this is happening. It seems
that HTML is the default for Netscape, but can be set to plain text.
Apparently in AOL 6.0, it isn't possible to disable HTML.
So, if you send a message to the list and it doesn't show up almost
immediately, please check your e-mail software to ensure that it is
set to send only plain text.
At one time I tried to strip out the HTML, but the volume lately is
too great. Now, the messages end up in the proverbial bit-bucket.
Thanks and 73 de Jim - AD6CW
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