[Ham-Mac] Correct Way to Post to Yahoo Groups Using Apple Mail

Dick Kriss aa5vu at att.net
Mon Aug 1 12:48:18 EDT 2011


Can someone tell me how to get Apple's Mail to issue a return <CR> that will be interpreted correct by the Yahoo Groups?

Dick  


> Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2011 09:16:53 -0500
> From: Dick Kriss <aa5vu at att.net>
> Subject: [Ham-Mac] Correct Way to Post to Yahoo Groups Using Apple
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> I am trying to find the correct way to post to a Yahoo Group using Apple's Mail such that the word wrap comes out semi-normal. I am using Apple's Mail v5.0 under 0S X 10.7 using the default Rich text message format.  
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> The problem has been when I used the return key to set the wrap. Yahoo ignored the return and inserted an automatic CR's after x-number of characters. This produced some really screwed up looking messages on the Yahoo web pages and digests formats.
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> I have changed the way I format the text and avoid using a single return and let Yahoo set the wrap.  Yahoo seems to understand a double return for a new paragraph. I think it worked on this posting
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> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/KenwoodTS-590/message/6774
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> If someone has a better suggestion, please speak up.
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> Dick AA5VU



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