I hate to say it but today all my mails have been coming through as though each paragraph has a heading of two or three words and then broken up into random line breaks! Don't know what's going on :( cheers Catherine -----Original Message----- From: Bev Anderson via <norway@rootsweb.com> To: norway <norway@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thu, 26 Feb 2015 12:46 Subject: Re: [NOR] Question for the group. Hi Steinar - I don't have the answer to the problem, but I do know what at least part of the problem is: it's the email program(s). A week or two ago I sent off an email with proper formatting, proper spaces, it came to me all run together, and someone re-sent my reply with proper spacing and paragraph breaks. I think the original formatting on my end had been the Yahoo html default. (This was right after Yahoo changed something about their email program and added stationery ability, so they had html as the default setting.) A few days ago I sent a reply to someone, it had all the proper spacings, I had hit Return/Enter before and after the links, double-spacings between paragraphs - all the normal things for a clear and concise reply. I was extremely dismayed to see my reply to this other person come back to me without proper spaces, the links had been run together so they did not look separate, etc., which is how I've seen other emails from other people, too. The next time I had to answer someone, the default formatting (which is new in Yahoo in the last couple of weeks) is html. Once I composed the email, I highlighted everything and made it plain text. The email that came back looked sensible (it only added one space between two paragraphs that had originally had double spacing, but the rest of it was okay). I'm not at all sure what's up with the thinner emails that have lines that run together without formatting, but part of the problem is in the line length in plain text emails in certain email programs. I know I reset my Yahoo email default program to wrap around and have longer lines across the page than it originally had as the default setting. I'm not even sure how I did it because it was so many years ago, but now the lines go clear across the page instead of wrapping around about halfway across the page (like the email example you sent). It also helps keep the links intact to have the line go clear across the page instead of the short wrap-around. The lack of formatting is what Ancestry's notes section has as their default, no matter what formatting I put in Notes on the trees where I am an editor; that's one reason why I don't put my genealogy info on their site: the formatting does not stay the way I enter it. I don't know how this problem is going to be resolved, but I suspect that some kind of consistency needs to happen in original formatting of everyone's emails that is compatible with the plain text Rootsweb email program. For the record, I've composed this in plain text, I have proper double spacing between paragraphs, the lines go across the screen before they wrap around..., so I hope it arrives in everyone's inbox the way it currently looks on my screen right now. Med vennlig hilsen, Bev ----- Original Message ----- From: Steinar Vissebråten via <norway@rootsweb.com> To: norway@rootsweb.com Cc: Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 5:17 AM Subject: [NOR] Question for the group. Hello everyone. As a fond reader of the list I see that I am trashing more and more mails from the group! I don't even care to read them! WHY? The readers of the list and writers to the list don't use any spaces or RETUN in their letters. The whole thing for me seems as an endless page of letters. You really need to look knowing what is the question or answer. I think education was to learn how to tell a story and let others find out the meaning of something.?! I don't know if I am the only one that really have a problem or it is a new way of writing questions and answers! If this contiues I'll consider getting of the list as these mails for me is just nothing. I have no time to get the email I need to adjust before I can read them. I would like to get other opinions about this so we could try to change it before it gets too many of these - to me - nonsence. Below is a sample of what I mean and how it shows up when I open my mails. Thanks for reading. Steinar ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to NORWAY-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message