<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; = charset=windows-1252"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.2800.1141" name=GENERATOR> <STYLE></STYLE> </HEAD> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff> <DIV> </DIV> <BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; = BORDER-LEFT: #000000 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial">----- Original Message ----- </DIV> <DIV style="BACKGROUND: #e4e4e4; FONT: 10pt arial; font-color: = black"><B>From:</B> <A title=davidlovepianos@earthlink.net href="mailto:davidlovepianos@earthlink.net">David Love</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>To:</B> <A = title=pianotech@ptg.org href="mailto:pianotech@ptg.org">Pianotech</A> </DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Sent:</B> Wednesday, April 09, 2003 = 12:14 AM</DIV> <DIV style="FONT: 10pt arial"><B>Subject:</B> Message Format</DIV> <DIV><BR></DIV> <DIV>It has come to my attention that the Pianotech archives use an HTML<BR>"scrubber" to remove HTML formatting and thereby save space, = and that<BR>messages formatted in HTML (as opposed to "Plain Text") appear = virtually<BR>unreadable in the archives.  As I was unaware of = this, I had my message<BR>default settings in HTML.  The HTML formatting = allows a variety of<BR>stylistic enhancements such as bold, italic, underline, indenting, etc.. <BR>Plain text formatting does not have these enhancements.<BR><BR>I have, therefore, changed my default settings to = plain text format and,<BR>assuming my information is correct, would suggest = others do the same. <BR><BR><BR>David Love<BR><A = href="mailto:davidlovepianos@earthlink.net">davidlovepianos@earthlink.n= et</A><BR><BR><BR><BR>_______________________________________________<BR>= pianotech list info: <A = href="https://www.moypiano.com/resources/#archives">http://www.ptg.org= /mailman/listinfo/pianotech</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>    For both mail and news sending format, or = what?  Is this pianotech list considered a newsgroup or just = plain mail?  I have mine set for HTML for mail, but plain text for = news.  This discussion came up last year, too, I believe.  --David = Nereson, RPT<BR></DIV></BLOCKQUOTE></BODY></HTML>