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From: "MargM" <>
Subject: Re: [LO] Odd message ?
Date: Fri, 3 Jul 2009 20:53:09 +1000
References: <21F7A14DBEFE469A88FE4FEC843D71C2@ownerc72bf9569><E89344D475734AFA87D78FBCC57A05A2@jon577b3d5f2a9>


----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon Nixey" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, July 03, 2009 6:07 PM
Subject: Re: [LO] Odd message ?


>
> Hi Marg,
>
> Most Email clients offer two formats that you can send an
> Email in...Rich
> Text Format (rtf) and Plain Text (txt). the rtf and txt
> are the file
> extensions.
>

Hi John

Yes I know ...............
> I think your lister is trying to send to the list in the
> wrong format,
> Rootsweb only handles Plain Text Emails.

And that too . She told me that to quote my query:


>She posted her reply and it went thru to the AUS-QLD list
>OK and she got this auto response

The message's file extension was not explicitly allowed if
> you are using a
> rich text editor(colors, different fonts ect...) you must
> turn it off
>


>
> If they are using Outlook / Outlook Express, there are 2
> ways they can
> handle this:

She does use OE . I checked the properties of her post and
it was sent in plain text .................. it did go thru
to the list . Had she posted in rich text it would have
got caught in pending mail as a bounce

I had not come across this collection of words before e.i

The message's file extension was not explicitly allowed if
> you are using a
> rich text editor(colors, different fonts ect...) you must
> turn it off
>




Bye

MargM
Beautiful NSW Central Coast
NSW
Australia

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