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ADMIN: Message Settings



This Birdchat message also applies to Carolinabirds...

Date:    Wed, 1 Sep 1999 07:32:51 -600
From:    Chuck & Jaye Otte <otte@JC.NET>
Subject: ADMIN: Message Settings

Dear BirdChat -

The listowners have been noticing a recent increase in the number of
messages being posted to BirdChat that are arriving as multiple part
messages.  These messages arrive as both an ASCII message and as an
HTML message.  While some mail readers have no problem sorting these
out, other mail readers have nervous breakdowns, and it also makes the
archives "messy".

BirdChat protocol requires messages to arrive in plain text (ASCII) only 
with no attachments.  PLEASE check your mail program settings.  

Virtually all of these messages, of late, have been created using 
Microsoft Outlook, and usually version 5 of this program.  The default 
setting for Outlook appears to be HTML.  To change this:  

Go to the menu bar and click on Tools
Click on Options
Find the tab that says Send
Part way down that page look for Mail Sending Formt
Check on Plain Text

We will continue to contact those members whose messages arrive in 
multipart format to help them correct this, but if you would all check 
your mail settings, especially if you have an upgraded version of Outlook 
or a new computer, and make sure that your default is set to Plain Text we 
would appreciate it!  

Thank you for your cooperation and everyone have a fun Labor Day weekend
of birding!

Chuck Otte
BirdChat co-listowner


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Chuck & Jaye Otte      mailto:otte@jc.net
613 Tamerisk
Junction City Kansas USA 66441
785-238-8800
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cwcook@duke.edu                 h 919-967-5446
Duke University Botany Dept., Durham, North Carolina
http://www.duke.edu/~cwcook