If you are seeing that in the message viewing window, the sender or his
mail program screwed up. (If you see that while looking at the message
source, that is normal if the sender used HTML format).

It might be that they received a message in HTML format but their mail
program doesn't support it.

Contrary to what another poster said, it you select Tools, Options,
Read, Read All Message In Plain Txt will NOT cause that.

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Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm


"Jim Hughes" wrote in message
...
Good Day ...

... I am using Outlook Express 6, on Windows XP Home, SP2, latest
patch level.

... at times, I get these Emails from people that have message
characters like
,/SPAN/FONT/I/BFONT size=2SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt". I

... unfortunately, I have not retained where the messages originated.

... what is the cause of such? Can I correct via some setting?

Thank you for your time & consideration.

Jim Hughes