Re: [Cz-L] A question?

I used your advice and pressed on "plain text" and lo and behold! it
went that way. Did it really arrive to you in PlainText? Chag Sameach
Fanny.

On Wed, Mar 27, 2013 at 2:33 PM, Jerome Schatten <romers_at_shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> Anny.... We don't insist on plain text, the software that delivers the
> mail to the list insists upon it.
>
> If it isn't in plain text to begin with than we have to strip all the
> extraneous stuff out of the message in order to make it 'look' like it was
> in plain text to begin with. That means what 'you' could have done easily in
> the first place, has to be done the hard way by someone else.
>
> JewishGen, the largest Jewish genealogical website also uses the same
> software. They simply return the message to the sender with a note if it is
> not in plain text -- period. In other words: no plain text, no post. We are
> not that cruel. If you can't do it, you can't do it, and we will do it for
> you. But the results often times are not pretty.
>
> I think, but I can't tell from your description, that the hieroglyphs that
> you refer to are caused by our editing process because it was not sent in
> plain text in the first place. I'll bet you don't see any hieroglyphics in
> this post, right? That's because it was sent in plain text format in the
> first place.
>
> You're using Gmail... so when you hit 'Reply', if you are not in Plain
> Text mode, you will see just below the 'To:'window, a line of formatting
> options (bold, italic, etc.), the last option is a link that says 'Plain
> Text'. Click on that and your message will be sent in Plain Text. It's that
> simple. This saves us a lot of work on this end and always produces readable
> results
>
> Hope this helps!
>
> Best,
> jerome
>
>
>
>
> On 13-03-27 10:43 AM, Anny Matar wrote:
>>
>> Why do you insist we write "plain text". When we do the outcome are
>> Hieroglyphs which one has to partly guess, combine sentences. Why can't
>> we
>> simply write!!! So much easier and readable.
>> Hag Sameach, anny
>>
>>
>>
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