Steiner If emails are coming to you all jumbled up with no returns, etc., you should first consider Bev's suggestion that it is a problem with your email program or an incompatibility issue. Don't just assume that the writer is uneducated or sloppy, because Bev's email came to me nicely formatted with spaces between paragraphs and quite legible and proper. If it came to you otherwise, it was not Bev's fault. I have not noticed the problems you mention with the list's emails, so evidently my mail program deals with it better. In fact I find emails with manual returns at the end of every line, making them extremely short and choppy, to be an annoyance. Of course it is your prerogative to not read emails you find difficult to read, but before judging people and basically call them uneducated, consider the possibility that it is a technical problem with email settings or an incompatibility problem that does not seem to be confined to your program, since some people have agreed with you about problem emails. As Bev suggested, companies such as Yahoo now seem to assume people want fancy things like html in their emails rather than plain text, and that could very well be what is messing up things, since lists often do not permit html and strip out the coding, but to say that it is because "you people over there . . . don't understand how this works" or insinuate that the writers are uneducated is an insult that is unwarranted. I am not trying to fan any flames and it may be worthwhile for the list to pay attention and make note of whose emails have the problem, what mail program they use, and what mail program the people use who have problems reading them, in an effort to see if it can be resolved. It is most likely a settings/preference issue that has changed and it may well be because things are done differently "over here" than "over there," but I hope we can resolve it without calling names. I would be interested to know if my email comes through to you without paragraphs because I have made six paragraphs in this email, so if it is all one when it arrives to you it is either something the list did or an issue between my email program and yours. Lenise On Feb 26, 2015, at 5:42 AM, Steinar Vissebråten via wrote: > At 13:40 26.02.2015, you wrote: > > Thanks for your reply. But your mail to me is the same as I just talked about. > > To I seems that the program used is the fault. > > I just send it as this is a problem to me. And > all my years on Internet (20years) it come more > and more. It was just a interest from me about > things that I don't bother about as these mail is > just for the trash box on my side. A lot of > valuable info is lost by sending out such mails. > I belive the problem is you people over there > using a place/software that don't understand how this works. > > regards > Steinar >

Hi Steinar, I'm responsible for the message you used as an example. Sorry about the mess. I hope we can find a solution. I use a couple of computers at different locations, and the problem (for me at least) seems to be when I log into Gmail through a web browser. Gmail seems to treat emails that have the same address and same subject line as a "conversation", and groups them all together. It's not a problem unless you're in the web browser and you use the reply button. Then it wants to send the entire "conversation". It won't show you. You need to click on a small line of 3 dots at the bottom of the reply panel. Then you can see what the entire message will look like. As far as formatting, I don't know what's causing the problem. My message looks fine on this computer, but looks like a complete mess at home. Let's see how this message looks. Hopefully much better. -Mark