On Jan 24, 2008 9:05 PM, Brian Mury <brianmury@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > On Thu, 2008-01-24 at 09:50 -0800, Aldo Foot wrote: > > As noted, I'm using Gmail and as I'm typing this reply I can > > see "<< Plain Text" > > on the upper left corner just below the tool bar to manipulate > > text attributes. > > That means you are sending HTML email. Click on "<< Plain Text" to > change to plain text. > > > > Moreover, in the Gmail Accounts Settings, there is the > > "Outgoing message encoding" > > For which I have selected (default) "Use default text encoding > > for outgoing messages" > > That has to do with unicode, not with HTML/plain text. I don't think > there is a setting for HTML/plain text - it just remembers what you used > last time. > > > > So, I don't believe I'm posting in both html and text. > > Believe it or not, you are. > > Here is the body of your email: > > > --===============1738505473== > Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_11598_19655807.1201196304518" > > > ------=_Part_11598_19655807.1201196304518 > Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Disposition: inline > > > > > On Jan 23, 2008 8:08 PM, David Boles <dgboles@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > Hash: SHA1 > > > > Brian Mury wrote: > > | On Wed, 2008-01-23 at 16:18 -0800, Lonni J Friedman wrote: > > |> That's a feechur of Outlook. It doesn't know how to quote emails. > > | > > | He isn't using Outlook. He is using gmail and posting from the gmail web > > | interface. > > > > > > Which defaults to using 'rich text'. > > > > > > - -- > > > > > > ~ David > > > > As noted, I'm using Gmail and as I'm typing this reply I can see "<< Plain > Text" > on the upper left corner just below the tool bar to manipulate text > attributes. > > Moreover, in the Gmail Accounts Settings, there is the "Outgoing message > encoding" > For which I have selected (default) "Use default text encoding for outgoing > messages" > > So, I don't believe I'm posting in both html and text. > > I use Thunderbird on another system and when I send and email I'm > asked whether I want to send the email as html, text or both and I always > select text unless there is something in the message that requires html. > > So, I'm still not following what's going on. If there's something I'm doing > wrong, please let me know. > > ~af > > ------=_Part_11598_19655807.1201196304518 > Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Disposition: inline > > <br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 23, 2008 8:08 PM, David Boles <<a href="mailto:dgboles@xxxxxxxxx">dgboles@xxxxxxxxx</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"> > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-----<br>Hash: SHA1<br><div > ------=_Part_11598_19655807.1201196304518-- > > ...snip... > > --===============1738505473== > Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" > MIME-Version: 1.0 > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > Content-Disposition: inline Ouch! I have replied now clicking on the "<< Plain Text". Hopefully it will stay that way, thanks. ~af