[pbs] PBS list formatting
Mary Sue Ittner
msittner at mcn.org
Tue Apr 29 10:22:31 EDT 2008
Hi,
Like Paul I received Luc's message in one big paragraph which I agree stops
you from wanting to read it. There are a couple of people's posts that
arrive that way for me. I'm not sure what to do about it. When Susan and I
were working together on the list and the wiki we discovered that what she
received for a list message on her Mac was very different from what I
received on my PC. All the messages are supposed to be sent in text. Html
is stripped which is why some messages come in blank so I don't know why
they should look different on different computers. I receive messages that
come into my email program as html (formatted with different fonts, colors,
embedded images) just fine. Jim McKenney's sometimes have big spaces
between the paragraphs, but not always. That is easier to cope with than a
jumble of words. I've often wondered also why in the archives to read some
messages you have to scroll and to read others you don't. I expect all
email programs are a little different and what is sent out therefore is
different as well as what is received.
Luc's message in the archives is not compressed and in fact it has multiple
spaces and you have to scroll to read it. At least that's how it looks on
my computer.
http://lists.ibiblio.org/pipermail/pbs/2008-April/030575.html
Paul, if it is a message you really want to see and it comes in to your
computer in a strange way, you may be able to read it in the archives
(which are referenced in every message so you can easily find them.)
In my email program I can edit messages I have received so it is possible
to go to the archives, copy the message and paste it into the message to
substitute for that one long paragraph so it can be more easily read.
And once again PLEASE DO NOT INCLUDE THE ENTIRE PREVIOUS MESSAGE in your
responses. I don't suppose shouting will make any difference, but for
digest subscribers including the previous messages makes it really
difficult to find the new messages.
Mary Sue
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