Yes, it is possible to have Outlook send in fully plain text. You need to set up an alias for the listname in a personal address book, then set up the alias to send only plain text, and uncheck any mime features. I set up my discussion list aliases with Send options as Mime unchecked and Plain text/UUencode checked. It seems to work. 

(i sure hope this message does work, sending from outlook, with the above options)

Dan Robinson
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: Andrew Bosch [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
> Sent: Wednesday, August 06, 2003 1:57 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: characters added to the end of lines
> 
> 
> The codes are MIME codes for soft returns in the text. 
> Microsoft Outlook and
> Novell Groupwise clients both do this. Listserv is strictly 
> RFC-compliant and
> so does not convert these codes to actual hard returns 
> (CR-LF). This can
> cause weird formatting problems for mail readers that 
> interpret these codes,
> but then encounter the hard returns that Listserv inserts at 
> the end of every
> 80-character line.
> 
> To solve this problem, you could configure your mail server 
> strip out the
> MIME codes. I'm not sure if it is possible to get Outlook to 
> send in plain
> text, but Groupwise clients can be made to send through a 
> non-MIME gateway.
> 
> 
> 
> >>> [log in to unmask] 8/6/2003 10:52:47 AM >>>
> Several users seem to encounter an issue where their e-mails 
> are having
> extra characters added to the ends of each line.  I'm not 
> certain, but it
>
>