david,

just went to outlook express, tools, options, then compose

compose font::  arial 9pt mail
                            arial 9pt news

stationery : as for composing new HTML message, I do not have any selection
on mail or news... could this be the  or my problem ????      I really
thought that coming back from comic sans ms  bold to normal writing (arial)
everything would be ok...
thanks anyhow for your help

pierre

----- Original Message -----
From: David Beierl <dbeierl@ibm.net>
To: Pierre A Lachance <palachance@ccapcable.com>
Sent: 27 octobre, 1999 10:34
Subject: Re: netiquette and HTML ???

> Hi Pierre -- not to worry.  It's mostly MicroSoft's fault anyway.  Outlook
> Express comes with the expectation that all your mail will be sent as
> HTML.  This lets you choose fonts and do all sorts of fancy things, but
> also creates very large messages  that are also very difficult to read
> unless your correspondent's mailer understands HTML (look at the bottom of
> this msg for what Outlook actually sent me on your behalf).  Outlook has a
> setting that will tell it not to use HTML, but I think it's hard to
> find.  I will try to find it, but if not (and if you can't find it
> yourself) someone on the list will know how to disable it.
>
> cheers
> david
>
>
>
>   At 09:43 10/27/99 , Pierre A Lachance wrote:
> >David
> >sorry... i never wrote  or been part of a mailing list  before, only for
> >the past month since i discovered
> >vanagon.com. i personnally do not know  anything about netiquette, so i
> >will have to reeducate myself  with what to do, not do or what i can
> >do  when writing or answering... thank you for letting me know... maybe
> >somebody should have told me before ! I would have  tried to correct
> >myself  for the better of all that read me.
> >
> >yours truly
> >
> >pierre a. lachance
> >lac beauport, pq
> >zephyr 85
> >beetle 00
>
>
> <x-html>
> <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> <HTML><HEAD>
> <META content="text/html; charset=x-user-defined" http-equiv=Content-Type>
> <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2314.1000" name=GENERATOR>
> <STYLE></STYLE>
> </HEAD>
> <BODY bgColor=#ffffff>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial size=2><FONT size=3>David</FONT></FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>sorry... i never wrote&nbsp; or been part of a
mailing
> list&nbsp; before, only for the past month since i discovered
</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>vanagon.com. i personnally do not know&nbsp;
anything
> about netiquette, so i will have to reeducate myself&nbsp; with what to
do,
> not
> do  or what i can do&nbsp; when writing or answering... thank you for
> letting me
> know... maybe somebody should have told me before ! I would have&nbsp;
> tried to
> correct myself&nbsp; for the better of all that read me.</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial></FONT>&nbsp;</DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>yours truly</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV>&nbsp;</DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>pierre a. lachance</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>lac beauport, pq</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>zephyr 85</FONT></DIV>
> <DIV><FONT face=Arial>beetle 00</FONT>&nbsp;</DIV></BODY></HTML>
> </x-html>
>
>
> David Beierl - dbeierl@ibm.net
>