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Techincal trouble fix

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Joanne Howl

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Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:29:53 -0400

 

Looks like I’ve been able to get two messages to the list today that were (thankfully) free of those nasty unintentional question marks.  I’m still not sure what is happening, although the best guess from the information I have gleaned from helpful listers is that I am most likely creating the messages in html – unbeknownst to me and likely thanks to AOL.  

 

I haven’t found a way to change AOL’s formatting to plain text – yet.  But I did try writing my message in Word, then cutting and pasting it into an AOL message.  Those are the messages that have come through clean (hopefully this one will, too).   This apparently avoids creating an html file – AOL must just pass the text along in that case, regardless of the format it was created in (just guessing – any wiser ideas on that one?)

 

As a writer, I have been totally appalled at the “invisible editor” mucking with my text and adding all the ugly marks, because I know it must be terribly distracting to the readers!  Apologies for that.  

 

I for one am MUCH happier with clean text – and will TRY to remember to take the time to create via Word.  Thanks to all who helped! 

 

One favor – if anyone sees my private email coming through with marks, let me know.  Apparently it does for some and not for others – don’t know what’s that about.  

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Still working to understand it all, but at least there is a viable fix that can be suggested to others when it happens to them.  

 

Joanne

 

Joanne Howl, DVM

West River, MD