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Correct. My brain said "send tab" but the fingers did the opposite.
-----Original Message-----
From: Larry Wright <lwright@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxx <realtraders@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Monday, October 11, 1999 1:36 PM
Subject: Typeset Suggestion - how to
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>On Mon, 11 Oct 1999, Pete wrote:
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>> Outlook Express: select tools, options, read tab, click "plain text"
>> instead of "html", click settings and
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>Thanks very much for letting others know how to change the settings. I
>don't use OE, but did check the settings you mentioned. Question: Do you
>mean the 'send' tab instead of the read tab? In my OE, the send options
>are there.
>
>I also checked the 'read' tab, and it is possible to set the font to
>whatever you like for reading mail. BUT, I don't see a place to change
>the size - do you know what size is used for plain text? Are sizes
>different for different fonts? Courier is the 'old fashioned' font that
>works well with ASCII.
>
>Last, but not least, I heard some time ago that Microsoft reverts to their
>HTML on a restart of OE, to make it as hard as possible to avoid MS
>formatting. Don't know if that's still true, but perhaps you can tell us.
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>> turn off "mime" (which turns on
>> "uuencode" -unsure what this means)
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>These are ways of encoding binary information, such as pictures, so they
>can be sent via net mail, which likes to see only ASCII. This is why
>pictures are 'attachments' - they must be encoded to get through.
>
>Thanks,
>
>Larry
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