Re: apparent force

["Rick Tarara" <rbtarara@sprynet.com>]

Most of the newer e-mail programs like those that come with Netscape and
Internet Explorer can produce messages in HTML.  If the user hasn't set the
default mode to Plain Text, then you'll get the junk.  The HTML seems to be
a de-facto standard, so you will likely see more and more of this.  You
might want to check and see if you can't use a more modern e-mail client
with your school system.  Ours is provided only with PINE, but I've been
able to configure my office machine to use Outlook Express (free with the
free IE 4.01).

rick


-----Original Message-----
From: LUDWIK KOWALSKI <KOWALSKIL@alpha.montclair.edu>
> P.S. Many messages come "deformed" on my ASCII-only system. This happens
> more often than last year. Why? What are these "3D" and "=", etc. which
> often appear in the middle of words? Invisible ASCII characters should
> remain invisible.
>
> Isn's ASCII a system of communication to which we are still committed?
> I suspect people compose messages on word processers and then send them
> without properly performed conversions. How should we prevent this?