I'm subscribed to a bunch of listserves, as I assume everyone here is. On some of the sending "plain text" results in postings with odd characters and "rich text" appears fine; on others it is the opposite. I can never remember which listserves function in which ways, so I'm perpetually annoying someone. No one can explain to me why this phenomenon occurs so I simply hit "send" and hope if it's worth reading it will be readable and read. Cyberspace. Julie Krueger ========Original Message======== Subj: [lit-ideas] Re: Peculiar formatting Date: 1/17/05 4:41:00 P.M. Central Standard Time From: _bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:bruce@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx) To: _lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx (mailto:lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx) Sent on: Re: > I think you're trying to send posts in HTML instead of plain text, and > that the server is set to send plain text only. So umlauts don't come > through, and the =3D20 end-of-line marker does. (Michael Chase's posts > have the same problem.) > > This is an experiment using rich text to format the post. My mail > program won't let me use HTML. (It is Apple's Mail program, latest > version.) It's not a matter of the Mac, because my last post came > through clean. > > So freelists will accept only basic ascii, and apparently any attempt > to go beyond ascii kicks in other formatting horrors. So it has to be > Hoelderin and kuessen. > Thanks, Harold, for your 'trouble-shooting'. I'll try to keep to =20 'plain vanilla' ascii (I'm also using Apple's Mail program, version=20 1.3.2). I've got it set to 'plain text' as my preference. (Yes Judy,=20= I did originally have an umlaut in my 'Hoelderlin'.) Let's see what happens =85. Chris Bruce Kiel, Germany -- ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html ------------------------------------------------------------------ To change your Lit-Ideas settings (subscribe/unsub, vacation on/off, digest on/off), visit www.andreas.com/faq-lit-ideas.html