M&D notes problem

[John Bailey]

I use gmail too and set it to 'plain text' via the little dropdown on
the bottom right - the arrow next to the trashcan.

On Wed, Jan 24, 2018 at 1:54 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
> I don't really expect it to make much difference but I will at least change
> the font to a Gmail-native font. Maybe that will help?
>
> Or if there's some more certain way of sending clean emails, even if it
> involves setting up some particular email client or something, I'm happy to
> adopt a new system for the sake of this.
>
> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 8:34 PM, Smoke Teff <smoketeff at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Would be happy to, if anyone has any ideas?
>>
>> I type my notes in a Word document on a Mac, then copy and paste them into
>> a standard Gmail message, accessed via Google Chrome.
>>
>> On Tue, Jan 23, 2018 at 7:45 PM, Krafft, John M. <krafftjm at miamioh.edu>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> Smoke,
>>>
>>> If you want your notes to be welcome and useful and practical for
>>> others in the future, can you do anything to avoid the garbage
>>> characters and broken words that risk making your posts too much of a
>>> chore to read? Maybe your mailer processes outgoing and incoming
>>> messages with no problem (so you have no idea what I'm referring to),
>>> but take a look at the archives to see what your message looks like
>>> not only there but in the digest. You aren't the only one who has this
>>> persistent problem; for all I know, this message of mine too will get
>>> garbaged up by the time it circulates; but if you can do anything to
>>> keep your notes from becoming too much of a headache to bother
>>> reading, I hope you will.
>>>
>>> jmk
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>>
>>
>
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