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Subject: [6pack] What is &nbsp?
From: Joe Merone <jmerone@rocketmail.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Jun 2008 11:14:27 -0700 (PDT)
After switching my Yahoo mail account to their new system I noticed that my 
recent posts to the lists were loaded with the offending characters.  Switching 
back to "Yahoo Classical" stopped the problem.  

Joe Merone
CF18928

> > I believe it represents a non-breaking space but why
> are
> > they suddenly showing up? Is it mostly from people
> using
> > Web based HTML type mail?
> 
> You are correct.  It shows up along with &amp; and
> other common HTML 
> characters when someone's mail sending program knows
> only how to send 
> HTML.  Apparently plain text isn't sufficient anymore,
> FORMATTED text 
> is the way of the future!  If you can't impress 'em
> with content, at 
> least wow 'em with the visuals, I guess.
> 
> 
> -- 
> Jim Muller
> jimmuller@rcn.com
> '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+greetings folks,
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