[6pack] What is &nbsp?

[Joe Merone]

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 & 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 at rcn.com
> '80 Spitfire, '70 GT6+greetings folks,