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 format your TEXT, 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.
Microsoft started all of this with Outlook, and it's just gotten
worse from there.
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.
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, ]<en.
We
thank you for your kind indulgences.
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