[SCCC] Fwd: Re: Email reflector

[Bill Haddon]

K6ll wrote
>gmail users never see their own postings

Unless they are in an existing thread. Else copy yourself in the posting or look in the sent file
73 Bill N6ZFO. (From SW Turkey on the Adriatic coast)



Sent from my iPhone

> On Jun 6, 2015, at 6:43 PM, "Dave Hachadorian" <k6ll.dave at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> Gmail users never see their own postings to any mail reflector. You can see your postings at the SCCC Archives:
> http://lists.contesting.com/pipermail/sccc/
> 
> Dave Hachadorian, K6LL
> Yuma, AZ
> 
> 
> -----Original Message----- From: bobgrubic
> Sent: Saturday, June 6, 2015 12:39 AM
> To: Southern California Contest Club SCCC
> Subject: [SCCC] Fwd: Re: Email reflector
> 
> Bruce here had a good explanation for why trying to format one's email is futile.
> I still, however, did not receive my own posting.
> 73,Bob, NC6Q
> 
> 
> 
> Sent via the Samsung Galaxy S® 6, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone-------- Original message --------
> From: Bruce Horn <bhorn at hornucopia.com>
> Date: 06/05/2015  5:01 PM  (GMT-08:00)
> To: Bob Grubic <bobgrubic at gmail.com>
> Subject: Re: Email reflector
> 
> Hi Bob,
> 
> While your desire to format your e-mail is admirable, the fact is that each recipient's e-mail client formats the incoming e-mail as individually configured. The sender has no control over how plain text e-mail content is formatted at the receiving end.
> 73 de Bruce, WA7BNM   (bhorn at hornucopia.com)
> From: "Bob Grubic" <bobgrubic at gmail.com>
> To: sccc-owner at contesting.com
> Sent: Friday, June 5, 2015 3:39:37 PM
> Subject: Email reflector
> 
> There is a practical advantage to receiving your own posts.
> When I first joined this club and its reflector, I tried to format my contest reporting so thatthe numbered columns would line up appropriately (using a monospaced font)
> the paragraph spacing was open and of my choosing
> I even try to take into account how it would look on a smartphone screen with a more narrow presentation than on a computer
> I tried to make it pleasant to look at and easy to readI first created a template in Word and even in Notepad then in WordPad, but noticed (this was when I WAS receiving my own posts) that the formatting got changed as it transitioned into a sent email. I even attempted to control my paragraphing with nothing but a period (.) on an empty line. (I did NOT change its color to white, however.)
> Well, I haven't come up with a sure-fire template yet. I guess I just wasn't persistent enough in working on it. It seems my monospace font (Consolas) gets changed into something else as it goes through the system. So, things are not easy.
> I am submitting this as a sole post--not as a continuation to a thread.
> Let's see if I can see it!Fingers crossed. Click Send.
> 73,Bob NC6Q
> 
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