In Outlook or OE, go to Tools then Options and ctrl tab to the desired page and nuke it. I don't want html primarily because I don't trust it's content muchtheless it's a pain to rad with all mail clients across platforms. Amanda Lee On Fri, 1 Feb 2002, Steve Holmes wrote: > In response to the issues raised about windows mailer crap, let me offer > some suggestions that should make things more bareable with minimal fus: > > 1. Yes, if using outlook, please, please turn off HTML messages. Sorry, > don't remember exactly which options to set but it is doable and I've done > it before in the past. At work, I have outlook set to create plain > text messages by default. > > 2. for Pine users until the outlook stuff gets cleaned up, there is > something you can do to make the impact of HTML minimal. Go into Pine's > setup options and change settings. Enable the 'prefer-plain-text' option; > this will put plain text portions first and cause the reader to go through > less noise to get to the message body. There's still a couple lines > mentioning the other part but I find it to be a lot better. > > 3. Another deal is the character sets. I sure wish pine could offer an > option to turn this off. If as many people as possible can do this, set > your default character set to iso-8859-1. If everyone does this, we won't > get those three bothersome lines at the top of the message. I do realize > there are international folks who lagitimately use other char sets but at > least the windows-12343 or whatever would go away. > > Just some ideas. > > > > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >