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

That is the markup for a html message, the span/span tag tells the
rendering engine in OE/IE/Firefox/opera to apply the styles to everything
between those tags
B is bold /b end bold font size=(whatever) is use that font size
You can see it because you have enabled 'view as plain text' in your
settings, View as plain text is a good thing, html can include a lot of
nasty code

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"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

AlmostBob ...

.... thank you
.... you help is appreciated.
Have a good day and, take care.
Jim Hughes
*************************
"AlmostBob" wrote in message
...
That is the markup for a html message, the span/span tag tells the
rendering engine in OE/IE/Firefox/opera to apply the styles to everything
between those tags
B is bold /b end bold font size=(whatever) is use that font size
You can see it because you have enabled 'view as plain text' in your
settings, View as plain text is a good thing, html can include a lot of
nasty code

--
-
Adaware http://www.lavasoft.de
spybot http://www.safer-networking.org
AVG free antivirus http://www.grisoft.com
Etrust/Vet/CA.online Antivirus scan
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/virusinfo/scan.aspx
Super Antispyware http://www.superantispyware.com/
Panda online AntiVirus scan http://www.activescan.com
Panda online AntiSpyware Scan
http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/spyware/test/
Catalog of removal tools (1)
http://www.pandasoftware.com/download/utilities/
Catalog of removal tools (2)
http://www3.ca.com/securityadvisor/n...aspx?CID=40387
Trouble Shooting guide to Windows http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/
Blocking Unwanted Parasites with a Hosts file
http://mvps.org/winhelp2002/hosts.htm
Cool Web Shredder http://www.trendmicro.com/cwshredder/
links provided as a courtesy, read all instructions on the pages before
use
Grateful thanks to the authors/webmasters
_
"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

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

Michael Santovec ...

.... thank you Michael
.... it is very beneficial to learn from your advice
Take care, have a good day.
Jim Hughes
*****************************
"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
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.

--

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