And if you use an intelligent email program, it will display the formatting you implied even though it is in plain text when you open the email to read it. If someone else sent this post (since with Gmail I don't receive copies of my own) I would see the *bold*, /italics/,and _underlines_ here, not just the characters either side of the words. I use Thunderbird. Paul, re-reading what you said, about tweaking the text, the fact that you have not set any bold, etc, does not necessarily mean that your post is in plain text. You must intentionally make it plain text if you normally work in an HTML environment. I can't see in the headers of your post what email program you're using to give you specific advice, but there should be something you can do so that you can instruct your email program to always send to the mailing lists in plain text. Try looking up the help in your program if you need guidance, or take a look at http://helpdesk.rootsweb.com/listadmins/plaintext.html Hope this helps. :-) Kind Regards, Wendy Howard -- Kaiwaka, Northland, New Zealand http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~wendyh65/ <http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/%7Ewendyh65/> ----- Original Message ----- *From:* singhals <[email protected]> *To:* [email protected] *Sent:* 01/26/2008 8:03:48 AM +1300 *Subject:* [BAd] HTML Text Tweaking > True, but the old pre-WIN options are still available for > those who like emphasis in their words.(g) > > Putting an _ before and after a word implies it's > underlined. A * before and after makes it bold, and a / > before and after is Italics. > > Cheryl > > Kathie Harrison wrote: > > >> Paul PLAIN TEXT is usually Arial 10 and no colors, bold, italic or any >> other text style [Rich Text format or RTF]. >> >> Rootsweb has never allowed anything other than Plain text to the >> lists. Anything else would end up in pending as HTML and would be >> deleted by default or by the admin. >> >> On Jan 25, 2008 11:50 AM, Paul A. Roth <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >>> Hi Lauren, >>> >>> Thanks...Shall I assume that include any text tweaking: ie. italics, underlined, text size, font face & text color? >>> >>> Paul >>>