On Mon, Sep 15, 2008 at 3:42 PM, Robert Moskowitz <rgm at htt-consult.com> wrote: > MHR wrote: >> >> Could you guys post in plain text and edit the posts so they don't >> consume gobs of screen AND bandwidth? > > You can thank Thunderbird for whatever you see in the formating. I make a > reasonable effort to clip and clean. But I don't know what others see. And > also I had received comments that I was not putting enough clear space > between my imbedded comments to be readable. So you get caught either way. If Thunderbird is sending HTML mail, you can stop that: Account Settings > Composition & Addressing > Uncheck "Compose messages in HTML". I switched from Evolution to Thunderbird for my mail email account, a week or two ago.