test for text only

[Michael Bailey]

It does look okay in the archive, so far as I could tell,
sent from gmail with the text option selected
(and the "rich formatting" hot link visible, counterintuitively)

On 11/28/07, Michael Bailey <michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dave Monroe wrote:
> >
> > Anyone have any idea how I can fix the gmail so's my posts don't >look like this (see below) in the digests? Thanks ...
>
> http://socal-raves.org/html-email.html#gmail
> says that
> Google Mail (GMail)
> When composing a message, there's a line just above the message-text
> entry box that has Bold and Italic and Underline symbols...on the end
> is a blue link that says << Plain text. Click that, and the whole line
> changes to Rich formatting >>. When it displays Rich formatting >>,
> you'll send plain text. (i.e. it's displaying the thing to switch back
> to rich formatting, which of course can't be done in plain text, only
> in HTML.)
>
>
> clear as mud: the Bill Gates school of user interface - put the
> "stop" command in the "start" menu, of course...
> by the same token, when you are sending plain text, make sure the hot link
> says "rich formatting" and vice versa
> (ok, it's a toggle, not that hard to understand,
> once you know that it's counterintuitive)
>
> sending this, will next check the archive to see how it looks
>