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 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 >VissebrÃ¥ten 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 Genealogy from Nes and Flå parish in Hallingdal. Nes farm and family books volume III & IV - is delayed as of dispute! Phone: +47 32068733 Cell : +47 9069 3540 Steinar Vissebråten, N-3540 Nesbyen http://vissebraaten.no http://lumberjocks.com/projects/16914 http://lumberjocks.com/Halling51/blog/11420 http://s438.photobucket.com/albums/qq101/Halling51/Norway%20woodwork/

Steinar: Your top part of the reply came to me in proper format, double-spaced.  At the bottom, my first reply to you has no formatting or paragraphs.  Everything is run together.  (I only left a small part to show others as an example; the rest I deleted from this reply.) Of the other people who replied and left my email at the bottom: Catherine, Mark, and Stephen's part of the replies are in proper format, double spaced between paragraphs, but the wrap-around is about 2/3 of the way across the page (it's wide, but I have a menu on the left and an ad on the right).  My part in Catherine's reply has three or four words of the beginning of each paragraph, then the rest is about 2/3 of the page with a wrap-around, but paragraphs are otherwise spaced properly, so it's kind of broken up. Emails from Lenise, Don, Barbara, and John are intact as they wrote them, all properly formatted.  The part of my email on Barbara's reply has the > arrow between paragraphs and on the first line of each paragraph. The only reply with zero formatting on what he was replying to is yours, Steinar. Best Wishes, Bev P.S.  As before, I have put double spaces between paragraphs, the lines go across the page as usual, and it's all properly formatted from my end.  How it arrives in your inbox is entirely between your email program and Rootsweb. From: Steinar Vissebråten <steinv@vissebraaten.no> To: Bev Anderson <bevgand@yahoo.com>; norway@rootsweb.com Sent: Thursday, February 26, 2015 7:42 AM Subject: Re: [NOR] Question for the group. At 13:40 26.02.2015, you wrote: Thanks for your reply. But your mail to me is the same as I just talkedabout. 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 aboutthings that I don't bother about as these mail is just for the trash boxon my side. A lot of valuable info is lost by sending out such mails. Ibelive the problem is you people over there using a place/software thatdon't understand how this works. regards Steinar Hi Steinar - I don't have theanswer to the problem, but I do know what at least part of the problemis: it's the email program(s). A week or two ago I sent off an email withproper formatting, proper spaces, it came to me all run together, andsomeone re-sent my reply with proper spacing and paragraph breaks. I think the original formatting on my end had been the Yahoo htmldefault.  (This was right after Yahoo changed something about theiremail program and added stationery ability, so they had html as thedefault setting.) A few days ago I sent a reply to someone, it had allthe proper spacings, I had hit Return/Enter before and after the links,double-spacings between paragraphs - all the normal things for a clearand concise reply. I was extremely dismayed to see my reply to this otherperson come back to me without proper spaces, the links had been runtogether so they did not look separate, etc., which is how I've seenother emails from other people, too.