Guest guest Posted July 24, 2004 Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 Thanks. I use AOL mail, so it's probably their problem. I recently installed 9.0c, the very latest version, and it didn't change it. Sigh. GG In a message dated 7/24/2004 4:09:09 PM Central Daylight Time, lverrett@... writes: Mr. Gandy More than likely it is not your AOL account. When any document is created on your computer it must go through the OSI Reference Model to get from its readable format to a digital format. It is possible that the problems is occuring some where between the program that your are using and your email Program itself if they differ. One fix you may try is to contact AOL and ask then what email program they support and use that one if you do not already do so. Second fix maybe reinstalling your email program because thay can get buggy after awhile. Third fix maybe to use a word prosessing program that works and plays well with your current email prgram. Fourth and perhaps the fastest is to contact the tech. support people the your email program using and ask them what can be done. Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 24, 2004 Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 Mr. Gandy More than likely it is not your AOL account. When any document is created on your computer it must go through the OSI Reference Model to get from its readable format to a digital format. It is possible that the problems is occuring some where between the program that your are using and your email program itself if they differ. One fix you may try is to contact AOL and ask then what email program they support and use that one if you do not already do so. Second fix maybe reinstalling your email program because thay can get buggy after awhile. Third fix maybe to use a word prosessing program that works and plays well with your current email prgram. Fourth and perhaps the fastest is to contact the tech. support people the your email program using and ask them what can be done. Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 24, 2004 Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 I would note that a couple of my email programs, when passed through a Yahoo listserv, consistently lose their formatting. I'm guessing it's Yahoo's server software. Mack -- Re: Email formatting Mr. Gandy More than likely it is not your AOL account. When any document is created on your computer it must go through the OSI Reference Model to get from its readable format to a digital format. It is possible that the problems is occuring some where between the program that your are using and your email program itself if they differ. One fix you may try is to contact AOL and ask then what email program they support and use that one if you do not already do so. Second fix maybe reinstalling your email program because thay can get buggy after awhile. Third fix maybe to use a word prosessing program that works and plays well with your current email prgram. Fourth and perhaps the fastest is to contact the tech. support people the your email program using and ask them what can be done. Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 24, 2004 Report Share Posted July 24, 2004 I would note that a couple of my email programs, when passed through a Yahoo listserv, consistently lose their formatting. I'm guessing it's Yahoo's server software. Mack -- Re: Email formatting Mr. Gandy More than likely it is not your AOL account. When any document is created on your computer it must go through the OSI Reference Model to get from its readable format to a digital format. It is possible that the problems is occuring some where between the program that your are using and your email program itself if they differ. One fix you may try is to contact AOL and ask then what email program they support and use that one if you do not already do so. Second fix maybe reinstalling your email program because thay can get buggy after awhile. Third fix maybe to use a word prosessing program that works and plays well with your current email prgram. Fourth and perhaps the fastest is to contact the tech. support people the your email program using and ask them what can be done. Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 Sounds reasonable. gg In a message dated 7/25/2004 8:10:59 AM Central Daylight Time, mreed_911@... writes: --- lawrence verrett wrote: > Mr. Gandy > > More than likely it is not your AOL account. When any document is > created on > your computer it must go through the OSI Reference Model to get from its > readable format to a digital format. Close, but not quite. The OSI model references how data moves between " layers " in a network. It's a theoretical reference, not an applied model. Anyway, the problem is that in AOL you're creating email in HTML, but the list doesn't support the HTML and AOL doesn't properly apply formatting to the text/ascii part of the message. Simply? Find a way in AOL to turn off the " good looking " stuff and foce AOL to type it in " plaintext. " Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 Sounds reasonable. gg In a message dated 7/25/2004 8:10:59 AM Central Daylight Time, mreed_911@... writes: --- lawrence verrett wrote: > Mr. Gandy > > More than likely it is not your AOL account. When any document is > created on > your computer it must go through the OSI Reference Model to get from its > readable format to a digital format. Close, but not quite. The OSI model references how data moves between " layers " in a network. It's a theoretical reference, not an applied model. Anyway, the problem is that in AOL you're creating email in HTML, but the list doesn't support the HTML and AOL doesn't properly apply formatting to the text/ascii part of the message. Simply? Find a way in AOL to turn off the " good looking " stuff and foce AOL to type it in " plaintext. " Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 Sounds reasonable. gg In a message dated 7/25/2004 8:10:59 AM Central Daylight Time, mreed_911@... writes: --- lawrence verrett wrote: > Mr. Gandy > > More than likely it is not your AOL account. When any document is > created on > your computer it must go through the OSI Reference Model to get from its > readable format to a digital format. Close, but not quite. The OSI model references how data moves between " layers " in a network. It's a theoretical reference, not an applied model. Anyway, the problem is that in AOL you're creating email in HTML, but the list doesn't support the HTML and AOL doesn't properly apply formatting to the text/ascii part of the message. Simply? Find a way in AOL to turn off the " good looking " stuff and foce AOL to type it in " plaintext. " Mike Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 --- lawrence verrett wrote: > Mr. Gandy > > More than likely it is not your AOL account. When any document is > created on > your computer it must go through the OSI Reference Model to get from its > readable format to a digital format. Close, but not quite. The OSI model references how data moves between " layers " in a network. It's a theoretical reference, not an applied model. Anyway, the problem is that in AOL you're creating email in HTML, but the list doesn't support the HTML and AOL doesn't properly apply formatting to the text/ascii part of the message. Simply? Find a way in AOL to turn off the " good looking " stuff and foce AOL to type it in " plaintext. " Mike __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 --- lawrence verrett wrote: > Mr. Gandy > > More than likely it is not your AOL account. When any document is > created on > your computer it must go through the OSI Reference Model to get from its > readable format to a digital format. Close, but not quite. The OSI model references how data moves between " layers " in a network. It's a theoretical reference, not an applied model. Anyway, the problem is that in AOL you're creating email in HTML, but the list doesn't support the HTML and AOL doesn't properly apply formatting to the text/ascii part of the message. Simply? Find a way in AOL to turn off the " good looking " stuff and foce AOL to type it in " plaintext. " Mike __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 --- lawrence verrett wrote: > Mr. Gandy > > More than likely it is not your AOL account. When any document is > created on > your computer it must go through the OSI Reference Model to get from its > readable format to a digital format. Close, but not quite. The OSI model references how data moves between " layers " in a network. It's a theoretical reference, not an applied model. Anyway, the problem is that in AOL you're creating email in HTML, but the list doesn't support the HTML and AOL doesn't properly apply formatting to the text/ascii part of the message. Simply? Find a way in AOL to turn off the " good looking " stuff and foce AOL to type it in " plaintext. " Mike __________________________________________________ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 a.. Sir; b.. I am sure I don't know but if this one has bullets let me know. c.. it may be that aol is striping codes, including the red code I am using right now and possibly bold codes or italic codes so maybe it is there fault like yahoo stripping out pictures d.. I will see you in the boat. e.. Email formatting Dear Email Gurus: Does anybody know why my emails get completely screwed up in formatting? The last one I sent had nice bullet points, paragraph separations, and standard justification when I sent it, but it came out like somebody had spilled it on the floor and scooped it up with a broom--all out of format. Is this the price I pay for AOL or do all the email services do this? Curious minds want to know. GG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 a.. Sir; b.. I am sure I don't know but if this one has bullets let me know. c.. it may be that aol is striping codes, including the red code I am using right now and possibly bold codes or italic codes so maybe it is there fault like yahoo stripping out pictures d.. I will see you in the boat. e.. Email formatting Dear Email Gurus: Does anybody know why my emails get completely screwed up in formatting? The last one I sent had nice bullet points, paragraph separations, and standard justification when I sent it, but it came out like somebody had spilled it on the floor and scooped it up with a broom--all out of format. Is this the price I pay for AOL or do all the email services do this? Curious minds want to know. GG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 a.. Sir; b.. I am sure I don't know but if this one has bullets let me know. c.. it may be that aol is striping codes, including the red code I am using right now and possibly bold codes or italic codes so maybe it is there fault like yahoo stripping out pictures d.. I will see you in the boat. e.. Email formatting Dear Email Gurus: Does anybody know why my emails get completely screwed up in formatting? The last one I sent had nice bullet points, paragraph separations, and standard justification when I sent it, but it came out like somebody had spilled it on the floor and scooped it up with a broom--all out of format. Is this the price I pay for AOL or do all the email services do this? Curious minds want to know. GG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 wegandy1938@... wrote: > > Does anybody know why my emails get completely screwed up in formatting? Gene, I experience that problem occasionally, but I think I have it narrowed down to those instances where I cut and paste content into the e-mail from another source, or else when I compose the e-mail on Word, then paste it over to my e-mail client. Apparently the difference in margins and returns creates some sort of mismatch. There was a time when I was using an older version of Netscape mail that when I would click on " Reply, " it would jumble up the quotations, but it did not affect my actual replies. Good luck, Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 wegandy1938@... wrote: > > Does anybody know why my emails get completely screwed up in formatting? Gene, I experience that problem occasionally, but I think I have it narrowed down to those instances where I cut and paste content into the e-mail from another source, or else when I compose the e-mail on Word, then paste it over to my e-mail client. Apparently the difference in margins and returns creates some sort of mismatch. There was a time when I was using an older version of Netscape mail that when I would click on " Reply, " it would jumble up the quotations, but it did not affect my actual replies. Good luck, Rob Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 My bullets got changed to letters and the colors got striped and the background I selected got striped to I suspect yahoo may have something to do with this as when I send email direct to people that does not happen, so I blame yahoo for the formatting being altered. Email formatting Dear Email Gurus: Does anybody know why my emails get completely screwed up in formatting? The last one I sent had nice bullet points, paragraph separations, and standard justification when I sent it, but it came out like somebody had spilled it on the floor and scooped it up with a broom--all out of format. Is this the price I pay for AOL or do all the email services do this? Curious minds want to know. GG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 My bullets got changed to letters and the colors got striped and the background I selected got striped to I suspect yahoo may have something to do with this as when I send email direct to people that does not happen, so I blame yahoo for the formatting being altered. Email formatting Dear Email Gurus: Does anybody know why my emails get completely screwed up in formatting? The last one I sent had nice bullet points, paragraph separations, and standard justification when I sent it, but it came out like somebody had spilled it on the floor and scooped it up with a broom--all out of format. Is this the price I pay for AOL or do all the email services do this? Curious minds want to know. GG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 25, 2004 Report Share Posted July 25, 2004 My bullets got changed to letters and the colors got striped and the background I selected got striped to I suspect yahoo may have something to do with this as when I send email direct to people that does not happen, so I blame yahoo for the formatting being altered. Email formatting Dear Email Gurus: Does anybody know why my emails get completely screwed up in formatting? The last one I sent had nice bullet points, paragraph separations, and standard justification when I sent it, but it came out like somebody had spilled it on the floor and scooped it up with a broom--all out of format. Is this the price I pay for AOL or do all the email services do this? Curious minds want to know. GG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 26, 2004 Report Share Posted July 26, 2004 I love AOL. I don't even use AOL, but about every 3 months they send me a free coaster in the mail. They are an attractive silver color and come with a collectable tin. Bullard BS, LP Training Coordinator Lubbock Aid Ambulance _____ From: wegandy1938@... Sent: Saturday, July 24, 2004 4:21 PM To: Subject: Re: Email formatting Thanks. I use AOL mail, so it's probably their problem. I recently installed 9.0c, the very latest version, and it didn't change it. Sigh. GG In a message dated 7/24/2004 4:09:09 PM Central Daylight Time, lverrett@... writes: Mr. Gandy More than likely it is not your AOL account. When any document is created on your computer it must go through the OSI Reference Model to get from its readable format to a digital format. It is possible that the problems is occuring some where between the program that your are using and your email Program itself if they differ. One fix you may try is to contact AOL and ask then what email program they support and use that one if you do not already do so. Second fix maybe reinstalling your email program because thay can get buggy after awhile. Third fix maybe to use a word prosessing program that works and plays well with your current email prgram. Fourth and perhaps the fastest is to contact the tech. support people the your email program using and ask them what can be done. Hope this helps. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted July 26, 2004 Report Share Posted July 26, 2004 Now that's bad humor---even by my standards. I am so proud Re: Email formatting My bullets got changed to letters and the colors got striped and the background I selected got striped to I suspect yahoo may have something to do with this as when I send email direct to people that does not happen, so I blame yahoo for the formatting being altered. Email formatting Dear Email Gurus: Does anybody know why my emails get completely screwed up in formatting? The last one I sent had nice bullet points, paragraph separations, and standard justification when I sent it, but it came out like somebody had spilled it on the floor and scooped it up with a broom--all out of format. Is this the price I pay for AOL or do all the email services do this? Curious minds want to know. GG Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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