LOL sproutpeople.

Hang on I'll check more. I saw numerous references to My Preferences when I searched Yahoo Groups.

Not doomed. We'll find it.



EDITED TO ADD: click on the My Email Preferences link on the My Groups page.

OR even check your

DELIVERY OPTIONS.

You might need to be logged in to do this of course!

Hey, great group, Melody. I check out their www site actually.

OK now I'm here

Yahoo Groups Help -Email and Message Archive

Edited to add:

One example on that page is this... but do check the page because there's a whole list of other help features.

Of course, you know this might not be the problem at all but was worth checking.

I forgot I am in a yahoo group too LOL.
And just tried to join a horse group and had to have my daughter help me figure out the capcha letters.
the yahoo site seems slow to load...for me anyway.

on the page I joined on there are these settings for email-


[Step 2. Message Delivery

Yahoo! Groups lets you choose how you stay in touch.
Individual Email
The option to choose if you want to get each group message and special notice individually and immediately, as it is posted.

Daily Digest
The option to choose if you want to see all messages but limit the amount of email you receive. We'll compile an email of up to 25 messages and send daily (special notices too!).

Special Notices - Receive only important email notices from the group moderator.

Web Only - Don't get notified of the latest happenings. Read messages only on the web.

Step 3. Message Preference

Select a display format for any email messages you may receive:
Fully Featured New & Improved! Traditional]

so maybe it is one of those settings that you need to change???

so as soon as I get a message from the group I can be of more help so we can figure it out.

hmmnn I was thinking...

Many, many moons ago when I used to subscribe to newgroups which then was called UseNet, it was in my OE that I had the Mail or News option. That was the one I mentioned earlier ... Tools/Options/Send.

To send to usenet I had to make sure that my NEWS Options in my email programme (in my case back then it was outlook express) were set to Plain Text.

Now I know that Yahoo groups is different, but I'm still thinking that if the Yahoo Groups preferences are OK, then you need to check in your Verizon because there are two types of options in OE e.g, one for news and one for mail. Both have HTML or plain text options and advanced settings.

I would double check what Jo posted in post # 7
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/post452791-7.html

AHA!!! the fully featured and improved thing.

That's exactly what I clicked on. I'll click on this again. But I think it's how I want to RECEIVE STUFF.

My problem is SENDING the stuff in a text format.

Going back there to check on this.

DOOMED DOOMED DOOMED DOOMED

Oh woe is me!!!!

lol lol

Well, I went into my groups, I changed the FULLY FEATURED to TRADITIONAL.

Now nowhere did I see anything that allowed me to select TEXT instead of HTML.

If you ever find this option, LET ME KNOW!!!

lol

[General Preferences [ Back to Mail Options ]
Need Help?
Name and Email
From name: This name will appear on the From line of outgoing mail.
Reply to: (if different from your Yahoo! address, e.g., name@company.com)
Folders/Search Results
Message Ordering: (default)
Descending by date (new messages appear at top)
Ascending by date (new messages appear at bottom)
Messages/results per page: Show messages/results on each page.
Special Folders:
Save your sent messages in the Sent Items folder
Redirect incoming unsolicited mail to the Bulk Mail folder
Composing E-mails
Mode:
Compose messages as color and graphics
Compose messages as plain text]
__________________________________

Jo:

Tell me, step by step. HOW DO YOU GET TO THE CLASSIC thing, because the last line "compose messages as plain text"

is exactly what I need to do.

I went to my verizon webmail but I can't seem to find these options.

So tell me how you got to this point, okay?

thanks much, Melody

http://www.verizon.net/micro/webmail...bmail_help.htm
Verizon Webmail Help

Okay, here's what just happened. I went to my Verizon email thing. I saw a message from someone at Sprout People. I clicked on reply, and noticed at the toolbar thingee, there were the words PLAIN TEXT.

so I typed in my reply, and hit send.

I immediately got a message back from yahoo saying that this message board only supports PLAIN TEXT AND NOT HTML.

Oh, my geniuses, what did I do wrong THIS TIME?

The reply said it was in PLAIN TEXT,

then I get an email from yahoo saying I can't email to the sproutpeople message board because I'm not using PLAIN TEXT.


DUH!!!

lol

Mel

Darn! How frustrating for you.

I was hoping that was the fix to your problem.

Are you a registered member to that group already?

Meaning is this a new group for you or have you sent this particular group messages before now??

I note on the site