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I logged into my Yahoo account at mail.yahoo.com and I couldn't find the
settings to switch to plain text. Where are those settings?
Lauren
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bill Swallow [mailto:techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com]
> Sent: Friday, May 09, 2008 1:10 PM
> To: Lauren
> Cc: imborn4fun -at- yahoo -dot- com; techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
> Subject: Re: My Apologies!
>
> Yahoo Mail is perfectly capable of sending plain text. Just
> switch the settings.
>
> On Thu, May 8, 2008 at 2:21 PM, Lauren <lauren -at- writeco -dot- net> wrote:
> > RICK!!!!
> >
> > It's Yahoo. It sends email out in HTML, like as a page
> within the message
> > nested in one tag. When the listserv strips the HTML, it
> strips the tag
> > that contains your message. CC'd people will still get
> your message, since
> > they can receive HTML. Yahoo apparently doesn't let you
> set your send
> > defaults to text only. Try gmail, from Google.
>
> --
> Bill Swallow
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