This is what my reply to your question actually looks like in plain
text...all the garbage is the coding language that renders the image in
html...
D.
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<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
<HTML><HEAD>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="Content-Type" CONTENT="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
<TITLE>Message</TITLE>
<META content="MSHTML 6.00.2713.1100" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
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<DIV><FONT face=Tahoma size=2>-----Original Message-----<BR><B>From:</B>
maybe
this could fall apart after the checks clear
[mailto:[log in to unmask]] <B>On Behalf Of
</B>Met
History<BR><B>Sent:</B> Monday, October 28, 2002 8:29 AM<BR><B>To:</B>
[log in to unmask]<BR><B>Subject:</B> Interim
rule
#4<BR></FONT></DIV>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px
solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"><FONT
face=arial,helvetica><FONT lang=0 face=Arial FAMILY="SANSSERIF"><FONT
size=2>In a message dated 10/28/02, [log in to unmask]
writes:<BR><BR></FONT>
<BLOCKQUOTE
style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px
solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"
TYPE="CITE"><FONT size=2>Sign me, dan who has a rule to add to the
list of
rules which is to use<BR>plain text for email which is a plain text
medium
and save the html crap<BR>for the world wide web where it belongs
becker</FONT></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><BR><BR><FONT size=2>Explain plain text vs. html for us aol
newbies. Sign me, Remington Rand <SPAN
class=388013613-28102002><FONT face="Courier New"
color=#0000ff> </FONT></SPAN></FONT></DIV>
<DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN
class=388013613-28102002></SPAN></FONT> </DIV></BLOCKQUOTE>
<DIV><FONT size=2><SPAN class=388013613-28102002>
<DIV><SPAN class=388013613-28102002><FONT face="Courier New"
color=#0000ff
size=2>Your post is in html... "hyper text markup language" ...which is
the code
that converts electrons into web page format. Allows you to create
vertical blue
lines and blue text, or to <U><FONT color=#ff0000>format</FONT> <FONT
face="Arial Narrow" color=#008000>your</FONT> <FONT face="Monotype
Corsiva"
color=#ff00ff><STRONG>TEXT</STRONG></FONT></U>, etc. It is ponderous,
clunky,
and is hard for those of us that are properly using plain text to
process and
reply. What you don't see in your email is all the formatting code that
renders
what you see on your monitor. It's resource intensive, and makes your
emails
much larger than they need to be, which of course costs David down under
money
to download because in other parts of the world, they don't get flat
rate
internet service, they pay for bandwidth used. And html email eats up
bandwidth,
for no good reason...it does not impart any additional information to
text.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=388013613-28102002><FONT face="Courier New"
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=388013613-28102002><FONT face="Courier New"
color=#0000ff>Microsoft started all of this with Outlook, and it's just
gotten
worse from there. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=388013613-28102002><FONT face="Courier New"
color=#0000ff
size=2></FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=388013613-28102002><FONT face="Courier
New"
color=#0000ff size=2></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=388013613-28102002><FONT face="Courier New"
color=#0000ff
size=2>Plain text is ASCII standard, basically the original format for
electronic text, and is just that: plain. No bells, no whistles, it just
gives
you the goods: the letters needed to read the words.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=388013613-28102002><FONT face="Courier New"
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=388013613-28102002><FONT face="Courier New"
color=#0000ff>Somewhere I hope in your AOL settings for email, there is
an
option to choose plain text. Please do so. And so should the rest of you
who are
using html mail, </FONT></SPAN><SPAN class=388013613-28102002><FONT
face="Courier New" color=#0000ff>]<en.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=388013613-28102002><FONT face="Courier New"
color=#0000ff></FONT></SPAN> </DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=388013613-28102002><FONT face="Courier New"
color=#0000ff>We
thank you for your kind indulgences.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
<DIV><SPAN class=388013613-28102002>
<P><FONT face="Courier New"><FONT
size=2>__________________________________________________<BR>Dan
Becker,
Exec. Dir. "Oh joy! Rapture!
Now<BR>Raleigh
Historic &nbs
p; I
have a brain!"<BR>Districts
Commission &n
bsp;
- Scarecrow<BR>[log in to unmask] <BR>919/890-3678</FONT>
</FONT></P></SPAN></DIV></SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML>
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