M&D notes problem

[Joseph Tracy]

I think John has it right that it is probably the issue of keeping posts in ‘plain text’ format.
But there may be something else going on because it looks to me like the most of the text in several of these chapter notes posts are missing when you check the archives. 
> On Jan 23, 2018, at 10:41 PM, John Bailey <sundayjb at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> 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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