Your Name

"Borg" <saerimner@gmail.com> wrote in message
news:a_2dndod-cZzGurRnZ2dnUVZ7v-dnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...
> Your Name wrote:
> > "Borg" <saerimner@gmail.com> wrote in message
> > news:8qqdnUGFguLkvurRnZ2dnUVZ8k-dnZ2d@brightview.co.uk...
> >> Your Name wrote:
> >>> In article <prudnbMa9OAidOvRnZ2dnUVZ7oidnZ2d@brightview.co.uk >, Borg
> >>> <saerimner@gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>>> why did you repeat it all ?
> >>> It could have been a styled / HTML version and a plain text version.
> > Some
> >>> newsreader applications will display just the styled version, while
> > others
> >>> display both. Of course, technically Usenet is meant to be plain text
> >>> only, but many garbage-quality newsreaders do not respect that.
> >> yer I am using Thunderbird.
> >
> > I'm stuck using hopeless Micorosft Outlook Express when I have to use
this
> > Windoze computer. :-(
> >
> > Every time I copy some text from a webpage I have to "convert" it to
normal
> > plain text via Notepad before pasting it into a message, otherwise I get
> > styled messages despite Outlook Express' settings saying it is only
using
> > plain text ... typical Microsoft blunder.
>
> Get Thunderbird then

Unfortunately it's not my computer, so I can't go around installing new
software on it ... even if I could, it's also runing low on hard drive
space, doesn't have much RAM is running Windoze 2000 and is as slow as dried
treacle. :-(