RE: Quick question

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Original poster: Chip Atkinson <chip@xxxxxxxxxx>

We should be sending out plain text at this point.  I just checked this
message and it appears to be text and not html.

Also, we don't generally send out attachments, though there may be some
accidents.  I'll have to see if I can screen them out entirely on my end.

Chip

On Wed, 3 Jan 2007, Tesla list wrote:

> Original poster: "Lau, Gary" <Gary.Lau@xxxxxx>
>
> Yes, and also the List format seems to have changed from
> text-formatted to HTML, where everyone is using different fonts.  I
> would favor a return to simple text-formatting, and also to
> disallowing attachments, to prevent virus and bandwidth abuses.
>
> Gary Lau
> MA, USA
> Gary.lau@xxxxxx
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Tesla list [mailto:tesla@xxxxxxxxxx]
> Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2007 12:05 AM
> To: tesla@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Quick question
>
> I had asked this once before a few years ago.
>
> Would it be possible to see the originators name.  Every email comes in
> "From Tesla List" and until now, you had to open each post to see who it was
> from.  Now, that seems to have been stripped off as well so I cannot even
> search for emails from a specific author.
>
> Every other email list I use (12 of them) preserve the author's name in the
> "From" line and append the list name to the subject line.  e.g.:  "[Tesla
> List] Quick Question"
>
> This would go a ____long____ way to helping people to organize their emails
> and to weed out threads that are not of interest.
>
> This is certainly not a show-stopper but it would be a great help.
>
> Thanks!
> Dave
>
>
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