From: "Antti Kurenniemi" 

I've used a lot of different newsreaders, but I keep coming back to OE -
it's just pretty straight-forward to use. If it weren't for the few
security problems (most of which seem to be related to html formatted
messages), it would win hands down IMO.


Antti Kurenniemi

"Gary Britt"  wrote in message
news:4558bfef$1{at}w3.nls.net...
>
> OK, I finally found the right place to set news messages to be in text
> only, under thunderbird.
>
> I want to get away from some MS stuff, but OE 6 seems better at some setup
> things than does thunderbird.
>
> Gary
>
>
>
> Antti Kurenniemi wrote:
>> I can read all your posts just fine as plain text, using OE 6. I always
>> read as plain text (email also), because I'm quite tired of watching out
>> for the latest embedded-in-html exploit trick... plain text is nice.
>>
>>
>> Antti Kurenniemi
>>
>> "Gary Britt"  wrote in message
>> news:4558a97f{at}w3.nls.net...
>>> Thanks John,
>>>
>>> I recently switched to using thunderbird and I did select for default to
>>> newsgroups to be HTML.  That is what I prefer.  It often bugs me to
>>> select whether to send a newsgroup message in html only, html and text,
>>> or text only, but doesn't ask me that question every time.
>>>
>>> Are people not able to read my messages (or some of them anyway) if I
>>> post in html only?  Anyone know how to get rid of the annoying
>>> thunderbird popup asking me if I want to post html only or html and
>>> text, etc. ?  Outlook Express never bugged me with this.
>>>
>>> Thanks,
>>>
>>> Gary
>>>
>>>
>>> John Beckett wrote:
>>>> Gary Britt  wrote in message
>>>> news::
>>>>
>>>>> 
>>>>>
>>>> Gary - Ellen has reminded me...
>>>> I don't know if you are aware, but you have selected an option (I
>>>> assume)
>>>> to post in html ONLY. Normally (if you must use html!),
you would use
>>>> an
>>>> option to post plain text AND html.
>>>>
>>>> John
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>

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