html for newsgroup

Another computer literacy question. Using Outlook Express and going through
usenet I just responded to a post. When 'sending' I got message apparently
I had composed in html. This has never happened before. Did I respond to
an html post (Will Koi stop growing) and that was the default? How do I
change/check to make sure I am just using text based messages?
Thanxx
Bill Brister

Yes their post was in HTML which is a newsgroup no no. I got the same
message when replying. All you need to do is to highlight your text and go
up to format and hit plain text and itll change your post to plain text. You
can simply reply in HTML which I think is the modern way of doing things,
but some people get all uppity if you dont use plain text.

Why. I dont know, doesnt everyone have a cable modem and new PC nowadays
anyway?

D
"Newbie Bill" wrote in message
m...
Another computer literacy question. Using Outlook Express and going
through
usenet I just responded to a post. When 'sending' I got message
apparently
I had composed in html. This has never happened before. Did I respond to
an html post (Will Koi stop growing) and that was the default? How do I
change/check to make sure I am just using text based messages?
Thanxx
Bill Brister

"Newbie Bill" wrote in message
m...
Another computer literacy question. Using Outlook Express and going
through
usenet I just responded to a post. When 'sending' I got message
apparently
I had composed in html. This has never happened before. Did I respond to
an html post (Will Koi stop growing) and that was the default? How do I
change/check to make sure I am just using text based messages?


Tools...Options...Send Tab. Choose Plain text as your default.

BV.

Even if your send tab is set to plain text default, when replying to an HTML
message Outlook will automatically set your text to HTML, you still have to
manually change it to plain text.

D

"Benign Vanilla" wrote in message
...

"Newbie Bill" wrote in message
m...
Another computer literacy question. Using Outlook Express and going
through
usenet I just responded to a post. When 'sending' I got message
apparently
I had composed in html. This has never happened before. Did I respond
to
an html post (Will Koi stop growing) and that was the default? How do I
change/check to make sure I am just using text based messages?


Tools...Options...Send Tab. Choose Plain text as your default.

BV.

"Newbie Bill" wrote:

Another computer literacy question. Using Outlook Express and going through
usenet I just responded to a post. When 'sending' I got message apparently
I had composed in html. This has never happened before. Did I respond to
an html post (Will Koi stop growing) and that was the default?

Many email programs are set to reply in the same manner the original message
was received.

How do I
change/check to make sure I am just using text based messages?
Thanxx
Bill Brister


If you look under "format" or some similar menu item, there will be a
selection that says HTML. Check or un check it based on what you want.


San Diego Joe
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Thanxx - Simple when you know where to look.
Bill

"Dsybok" wrote in message
ink.net...
Even if your send tab is set to plain text default, when replying to an
HTML
message Outlook will automatically set your text to HTML, you still have
to
manually change it to plain text.

ToolsOptionsSend tab and uncheck the box to reply in the format in
which it was sent.

"Benign Vanilla" wrote in message
...

"Newbie Bill" wrote in message
m...
Another computer literacy question. Using Outlook Express and going
through
usenet I just responded to a post. When 'sending' I got message
apparently
I had composed in html. This has never happened before. Did I
respond
to
an html post (Will Koi stop growing) and that was the default? How do
I
change/check to make sure I am just using text based messages?


Tools...Options...Send Tab. Choose Plain text as your default.

BV.

Dsybok wrote:
Yes their post was in HTML which is a newsgroup no no. I got the same
message when replying. All you need to do is to highlight your text and go
up to format and hit plain text and itll change your post to plain text. You
can simply reply in HTML which I think is the modern way of doing things,
but some people get all uppity if you dont use plain text.

Why. I dont know, doesnt everyone have a cable modem and new PC nowadays
anyway?

Personally, I'm a web developer/admin who hates html formatted email and
NG posts. For one thing, there are too many malicious things that can
hide in HTML. I just don't see a good reason to use it except for very
select instances. It also makes each piece of email larger and when
one is using a limited access dial up connection, this makes a difference.

As to the comment about high speed access, there are lots of people in
this world still using older computers and dial up. My mom, dad, sister
and best friend all use dial up. They don't use the internet at home
enough to justify the cost of high speed access or can't afford it.

Susan
shsimko[@]duke[.]edu

"Susan H. Simko" wrote in message
...

Personally, I'm a web developer/admin who hates html formatted email
and
NG posts. For one thing, there are too many malicious things that
can
hide in HTML.

I concur.

I'm a software developer now, writing some program for data recovery
and virus killing at year 1988 when I was a computer reparing
technician. Work for an antivirus software vendor as programmer at
1995. Sometime, when I receive email in HTML format or with
attachment, I still got the habit of FilePropertiesDetailsMessage
Source... to view in the raw source, instead open the email directly.

BTW: Susan, do you put those "malicious things" in the webpages you
design? ;-)

It also makes each piece of email larger and when
one is using a limited access dial up connection, this makes a
difference.

This not just happen on dial up, but also to broadband. Slow access on
broadband can cause by data communication channel traffic jam, or
gateway server overloaded.

Another issue of HTML are, newsreader tend to display it wrongly when
the message are compose by another newsreader. e.g. Free Agent may
display wrongly the message compose by Outlook Express, or the other
way round. This is due to the Document Type and qirk implemented by
each news client.

Of cource, there is some news client that not even support HTML.

Most of the modarated newsgroup will not accept HTML partly due to it
make the auto modaration with software complicated.

BTW: I'm sorry if I do have some spelling mistake.

Regards,
Wong

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"Dsybok" wrote in message link.net...
Yes their post was in HTML which is a newsgroup no no. I got the same
message when replying. All you need to do is to highlight your text and go
up to format and hit plain text and itll change your post to plain text. You
can simply reply in HTML which I think is the modern way of doing things,
but some people get all uppity if you dont use plain text.

Why. I dont know, doesnt everyone have a cable modem and new PC nowadays
anyway?


Further to the earlier post, in addition to the potentially malicious
use of HTML and the bloated size that it entails, it is quite simply
not supported in a number of news and mail readers... in fact IMHO the
best news readers out there DON'T support HTML... (best for filtering,
threading, kill/watch filling, searching at least). In the really good
news readers and (google a bad one) HTML formatted posts show as flat
text.. with all the HTML code as well, making it very hard to read.