I'm forwarding this for Bill. When you post to the list please make sure you don't have the html settings on for your email. Rootsweb will not support that and your message will bounce. Explanation is attached at the end of Bill's post. Thanks, Ginger gingerh@intrnet.net ---------- > From: ILPOPE-L-request@rootsweb.com > To: wjbarger@earthlink.net > Cc: owner-ILPOPE@fp-1.rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: Pope County Genealogy Society > Date: Saturday, July 11, 1998 8:59 PM > > >From ILPOPE-L-request@rootsweb.com > > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > > ------=_NextPart_000_000A_01BDACFD.EF50DF80 > > Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > This is just a note to say that I look forward to supporting a Pope = > > County Genealogy Society even though I am far away in California. > > Bill Barger > > > ------=_NextPart_000_000A_01BDACFD.EF50DF80 > > Content-Type: text/html; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable > > > <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD W3 HTML//EN"> > > <HTML> > > <HEAD> > > > <META content=3Dtext/html;charset=3Diso-8859-1 = > > http-equiv=3DContent-Type> > > <META content=3D'"MSHTML 4.71.1712.3"' name=3DGENERATOR> > > </HEAD> > > <BODY bgColor=3D#ffffff> > > <DIV><FONT size=3D2>This is just a note to say that I look forward to = > > supporting a=20 > > Pope County Genealogy Society even though I am far away in=20 > > California.</FONT></DIV> > > <DIV><FONT size=3D2>Bill Barger</FONT></DIV></BODY></HTML> > > > ------=_NextPart_000_000A_01BDACFD.EF50DF80-- > > Hi -- > > The message you submitted to this list (included above) wasn't > sent to the list subscribers. RootsWeb accepts only plain text > mail. That means that HTML mail, attachments, ``enriched text'', > and a few other formats can't be sent to RootsWeb mailing lists. > You can post your message if you send it in plain text; turn off > the ``Post in HTML'' or ``Enriched Text'' features of your mail > reader, or don't use any attachments. See > http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/listowners/html-off.htm for > instructions on turning off HTML in most of the popular mail > programs, or ask your ISP's technical support line for help. > > We've had to institute this policy because of the problems that > accompany these fancy mail formats. Some people don't have mail > programs that are capable of processing the special file formats. > Even among those who do, different mail programs handle these > special formats in very different and confusing ways. HTML messages > pose special problems to our digested mailing lists. Most of all, > HTML-ified mail and attachments place a considerable burden on > RootsWeb's overworked machines. All in all, mail in this format > produces a lot of problems for RootsWeb's servers and subscribers, > so we find it's best just to use plain text. > > -- The RootsWeb staff