Frank Rubin wrote:
I have gone to great lengths to avoid creating any HTML in my postingsto this mailing list. To avoid HTML-style quoting, I am copying the postings myself, and inserting all of those greater-than signs by hand. I have avoided putting in any links because I have not found a way to suppress the anchor tags. I have not done any form of text emphasis other than using caps, used no colors, inserted no pictures or backgrounds, and given no email links. I don't see what I am doing that makes you see HTML in my posts.
I can't see any signs of HTML in these emails, other than line breaks,which are already in the emails when I receive them from the mailing list. If I manually removed the line breaks, then the gt-signs would no longer be along the left edge, but interspersed in the text. I don't think that would be desirable.
To be exact: your mails do contain plain text message. But they also contain a HTML copy of the message. Some mailers show only text version, some will internally convert text to HTML and render it for viewing, so you miss the difference. But as other noticed the line:
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="-----------------------------1121977411"
in the headers shows that it is not a plain mail. AFAIK nothing you type will turn of HTML mail (but you probably can add things like links which will disable text version). You need to find a configuration setting for your mailer to disable HTML.
Below part of your message viewed as raw text (to show you transition from plain text to HTML):
I am starting to wonder if this isn't some kind of hazing for the new guy, and if I want to join this fraternity then I have to undergo this ritual. Or maybe you are just testing me to see if I am worthy to be in this august company.
Frank Rubin
-------------------------------1121977411 Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
<HTML><HEAD> <META charset=3DUS-ASCII http-equiv=3DContent-Type content=3D"text/html; cha= rset=3DUS-ASCII"> <META content=3D"MSHTML 6.00.2900.2668" name=3DGENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY style=3D"FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: Arial; BACKGROUND-COLOR: #fffff= f">