Marty wrote:

> That works, but it's unnecessary effort with notepad I see you're using
> Outlook Express, which can be configured for mail and news separately,
> with a setting in tools>options>send tab where you specify the sending
> format for each.
>
> If you set OE to send news in text format, and you're pasting in content
> from a browser or rich text, as long as you aren't pasting in html code,
> OE will see it as surface text only and will not display or send any html
> code.
>
> If you are working on a post that is html or rich text and you want to
> send it as text, in your composition window, go to Format>and select Plain
> Text. It will change the post by removing all but the visible text, and
> will remove all formatting except the most basic.

That's less reliable than using Notepad; your line breaks get all weird.
When you paste into OE, the rich text gets pasted. Pasting into Notepad to
strip out the formatting and then pasting into OE, you see what you're going
to post, rather than relying on the software to remove the formatting once
you send the message.

It's just a personal choice, based on my lack of faith in OE's ability to
know what I want it to do.

Bob