From: Tony Williams 

Gary Britt wrote:

> OK,  I may have to go back to OE 6 for newsgroup stuff as Thunderbird
> doesn't seem to save the formatting changes when I try to tell it to do
> plain text only.

Try under "Tools->Account Settings", then expand
news.barkto.com, select "Composition & Addressing" and
uncheck "Compose Messages in HTML Format".

That's what works for me at any rate.

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Tony

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