A follow-up to my earlier post about messages to Tweeters
that have an HTML copy riding right behind.

It seems that the HTML attachments occur only with users
of Microsoft Outlook Express. Some of them -- perhaps
unknowingly -- have left on the default setting "Mail
Sending Format = HTML".

It is easy to switch this to "Plain Text". The path is:
Tools/Options/Send. This then becomes the general case
for all outgoing messages. Eric Greenwood tells me that
you can limit the setting to specific address-book entries
-- like Tweeters.

It is possible that some may wish to follow Microsoft's plan,
where everyone uses IE4.0 and the browser is the interface
for everything, the desktop. In that case, persisting with
HTML makes them the avant-garde of a future bright with
promise.

-Tully Hammill

hammill at u.washington.edu