RE: PLAIN TEXT ONLY! (was RE: NFS server errors; LOTS of DUMPs)

[Joel Fritz <JFritz@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm pretty sure it was the same in Outlook '97, but I may be wrong.  If you
click on the Format menu you should be able to reformat your reply as text.
This is assuming you're using Outlook and not Word as your e-mail editor.  I
don't think there's a way to make fowards and replies default to plain text,
but I'd like to be wrong about that.

I gotta admit that I take a perverse pleasure at work in replying to
overformatted messages (5 fonts, 5 colors, embedded graphics) with the
original message changed to plain text.  Some would call this passive
aggressive behavior. <g>   

-----Original Message-----
From: Bale, Dan [mailto:D.Bale@handleman.com]
Sent: Wednesday, June 27, 2001 8:30 AM
To: MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
Subject: PLAIN TEXT ONLY! (was RE: NFS server errors; LOTS of DUMPs)


I'm using Outlook 97.  How do you click on the "plain text option" when
replying to messages?  
Other users of Outlook 97:  What does your "Send Options for this Recipient
Properties" for Midrange-L show?  For lack of better understanding, I
checked that "I want to specify the format for messages to this recipient"
and selected the MIME format with "Plain text" only.  Instead of MIME, I
could select "Plain text/UUEncode" but that appears to be specific to
Macintosh; would that make a difference for the list mail?
I have just searched through "Clippy", and the only way to tell Outlook to
send "plain text" is to uncheck the "Always send to this recipient in
Microsoft Exchange rich text format" box, which I have done.  This is my
second week using Outlook, previously our email was about as text-based as
could be - from a mainframe based email server.  
For all the complaining I've done over the past year or so about this
problem, it bugs the heck out of me to be contributing to it.  
Dan Bale 
IT - AS/400 
Handleman Company 
248-362-4400  Ext. 4952 
D.Bale@Handleman.com 
  Quiquid latine dictum sit altum viditur. 
  (Whatever is said in Latin seems profound.) 
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