John,

        Actually that's MIME text/enriched encoding, not HTML, which is why
Netscape doesn't understand it. Current Eudoras display both HTML and
text/enriched formatting, and Pro versions can emit MIME tags.

        It is possible to turn off Eudora's formatting toolbar, and there's
another setting to allow/disallow/warn-before-sending stylized text. Tell
your correspondent to check out Settings...:Stylized Text and warn them
that Netscape users aren't able to read their formatting.


                                                Chris Pepper
PS-I don't think LISTSERV knows about this MIME header, although its
arguable that a text-enriched stripper would be a useful thing for non-MIME
users. It seems to be a fairly uncommon and easy to fix problem, though...

PPS-Following is a sample of text/enriched.

>Content-Type: text/enriched; charset="us-ascii"

><x-rich><bold><bigger><bigger>BIG</bigger></bigger></bold> text

></x-rich>


At 5:15 PM -0400 07/29/1997, John Ryder wrote:
>Someone here is composing email with style changes, such as bold, indent,
>italics from Eudora and sending them to a list. The message gets
>distributed but the style changes don't. They show up in the archives
>(and on the Web page) as....
>
>  </bold><paraindent><param>right,left</param>* Review recent efforts to
>  describe the IT vision and/or plan for UVM.
>
>and therefore don't display as intended from Netscape. Has anyone run
>across this need before? Is there a list header setting to enable these?
>Thanks in advance.
>
>John Ryder, Computing and Information Technology, University of Vermont
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