Message formats

On Jan 6, 18:33, Barry A. Watzman wrote: I am NOT sending in HTML format, but it is MIME encoded. Sorry, but I use my E-Mail client (Windows messaging) for more than just this discussion group, and I need the ability to send and receive formatted text for some of them, including my employer. I'm not going to change formats on a message-by-message basis just to eliminate the equals signs at the ends of the lines. No, it's not just MIME-encoded. We're not complaining about equals signs at the ends of lines (which, incidentally, arise because Microsoft don't understand MIME). Apart from this message, all the ones I've seen from you have been encoded as "multipart/alternative". The few I've bothered to read (because it IS a bother) have contained a copy in some other format as well as the plain text. And as you can see from the way my mailer has quoted your message, the lines aren't split except at paragraph breaks. You need to get a mailer that works :-) "Windows messaging"? Do you mean Microsoft Mail? Or something like Outlook? I can assure you that it is possible to configure Microsoft mailers to send formatted HTML (which IMHO should not be allowed at all) or RTF in such a way that normal mailers simply see a plain text plus an attachment. -- Pete Peter Turnbull Dept. of Computer Science University of York