Hello Rachel and others that might can help me out with this one.

Well there are two kinds of people on the Internet. When it comes to email 
the one kind are those folks who like to correspond with plain text.   This 
is text with hardly any formatting. The other kind of people is like me use 
rich text or HTML (Hypertext Markup Language) this is the software language 
you find on websites.  This allows the email or website to hold a hyper 
link, photo, fancy fonts, sound files or video files.

What I think is happening when you get the gibberish in your email is that 
something along the email line has broken down so to speak and the 
underlying fabric of the email is showing up. This like a person's underwear 
it is not supposed to show.

If anyone cares to get into the intricate details of plain, rich or HTML 
text then follow this link:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/outlook/HP012329961033.aspx

I think I met my limit for the list tonight so I guess I will quit.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Rachel" <[log in to unmask]>
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Sent: Thursday, February 19, 2009 9:30 PM
Subject: [VICUG-L] "smart tag"? text in e-mails


> Hi, everyone.
> Every once in a while, when reading an e-mail message, I'll see something 
> like the following:
>
> <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns = 
> "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" />
>
> Can anyone tell me what this is exactly and/or what causes it to be 
> written into an e-mail?  I notice it mainly with certain people only, so 
> I'm assuming there's some setting or other on their machines or e-mail 
> programs that is producing it.
>
> Thanks for your thoughts.
> Rachel
>
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