Hi William, I agree I'm partial to plain text too. Which is one of the reasons I switched to Calypso a few years back. At the time it was one of the few email programs which would automatically strip out the HTML and attachments. Something MS took a while to copy<BG> Mike ~ Moderator CHAD Smart & Free Archive; //www.freelists.org/archives/chadfree/ Editor MikesWhatsNews see ~ http://www.mwn.ca See my Anti-Virus pages <http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/mikes_virus_page.htm> A Technical Support Alliance & OWTA Charter Member *********** REPLY SEPARATOR *********** On 14/04/2004 at 8:18 PM William Warren wrote: ick...well i got tired of html mails a long time ago so i compose only in text now..:) Many of the security lists i subscribe to will flame you or boot you for posting in html rofl..:) Mike wrote: > Hi William, > all new subscribers are set to moderated to prevent the spammers from > posting without our intervention. > > We un-moderate the members we know as fast as we can. > > And new members as soon as they show us the understand the 'trimming' and , > 'plain text' concept<G> > > If Freelists receives a message in HTML or rich Text it will display the > message in plain text as well as all the code that makes up the HTML > message. > This can result in a message 3 times as large as the plain text message. > > If Incredimail HTML is used the result is 4 times or more larger.! -- My "Foundation" verse: Isa 54:17 No weapon that is formed against thee shall prosper; and every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment thou shalt condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the LORD, and their righteousness is of me, saith the LORD. -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- Was this forwarded to you? Want to subscribe? Send an email to chadfree-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe. For a complete list of email commands for our list send an email to ecartis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx with a subject line of "info chadfree" without the quotes. If you wish to unsubscribe from our list send an email to; chadfree-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=unsubscribe To contact the list moderators send an email to chadfree-moderators@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-