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Dave - we're almost neighbors. I'm in Everett, and visited a friend who has
a BF6-21 in Seattle today. Hmm... I predict a Northwest F.O.G. BBQ sometime
this summer.

Your comment regarding Plain Text vs. HTML is a good one, and it is an issue
on every e-mail list server I've subscribed to. I noticed my subscription
profile on the eGroups site lets me specify whether my e-mail program is
HTML-compatible or Plain Text only. Unfortunately, this doesn't seem to
translate the messages one-way or another. I'll ask eGroups management about
it.

For those who aren't sure what we're talking about, here's a brief summary
of the situation. Way back when at the dawn of time, e-mails were sent as
plain text - no color, no fancy fonts, no animated banner ads, etc. A couple
years ago or so Microsoft and Netscape introduced new versions of their
e-mail programs that allowed sending e-mails formatted like web pages with
lots of different fonts and colorful text (instead of just colorful
language). They thought this was such a C00L THING, they decided to make it
the default format for sending e-mail with these new programs.
Unfortunately, everyone with the older programs and other special situations
get to see all the ugly HTML codes for fancy fonts and colors as just a
bunch of gobbledygook mixed in with the text of the e-mail. What a mess.
(Note: file attachments are even worse! Use the Vault instead...)

The best we can hope for is to meet somewhere in the middle. Those of us who
can should upgrade to the latest version e-mail programs - and that's not a
bad idea security-wise as well (OK, depending on one's perspective). The
rest of us should be polite and send e-mails to this group as "Plain Text"
only. Most e-mail programs have a way to set the format for outgoing
messages. In recent versions of Outlook Express it is on the Send tab of the
Options window under the Tools menu. Other programs/versions differ
slightly. Look for a "Plain Text" vs. "HTML" option... check the help file
if you can't find it. If there's no mention of it in the help file, chances
are you're e-mail program doesn't send HTML format to begin with, so there's
nothing to worry about.

This e-mail was sent as Plain Text. No electrons were harmed in its making.

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Geoff Shepherd (list manager)