Nope, I've been a member for 2 months now. Did you read my first post on this? Where I mention I used to use Outlook Express to communicate with the group but now that I am using Verizon, I can't do the email thing, and I must go to the group site. Believe me, it's MUCH easier to reply in an email. It goes right to the message board. At least IT USED TO.

I have no idea what this Text thing is all about.

Oh well, I'll just go to the site and post there.

It's a great group filled with knowledgeable people who know a great deal ABOUT AGRICULTURE and growing and sprouting.

I can't tell you what I've learned so far.....it's just unbelievable.

I purchased some organic Broccoli Sprouts today.

I can't wait to start sprouting these beauties. The anti-oxidant level is off the charts on these sprouts.

Take care and I do thank you for trying to help me.

Like I said:

DOOMED DOOMED DOOMED to walk the ancient corridors of message boards.

never again to be able to respond by email

OH THE PAIN, THE PAIN.


lol lol lol

I log on at the Verizon Central page.
then go to check email

Now on the actual email page you can change between the Classic and the All New Mail.
If you are in the classic email it will say Classic up to the left near the Verizon and Yahoo logos.

If you are in the New style- the logos are a lot smaller and next is your email address and under it it will say sign out , member center, mail classic.
click the mail classic word to get to it.

Ok so now you should be in the classic email -
near the upper right of the page there should be an Options buttons/word - click that.
Half way down the page on the right is -
[General Preferences - {click it}
Customize your Inbox view and your Compose options. Change your outgoing name and address.]

then go to this section -
[Composing E-mails
Mode:
* Compose messages as color and graphics
Compose messages as plain text]

remember to hit save at the bottom left corner.
hope that helps..

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Jo:

We seem to have TWO COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LOOKING VERIZON CENTRAL WEB PAGES.

1st. you say "then go to check mail".

There is no "check mail", there is only the option EMAIL. So I clicked on that.

Then I am brought to my emails.

You said ""It will say Classic up to the left near the verizon and Yahoo logos".

there are no YAHOO logos. It doesn't say Classic anywhere.

You say: "If you are in the New style-the logos are a lot smaller and next is your email address and under it clic the mail classic word to get to it.

There is no Mail Classic Word.

I am perplexed at how we are viewing Verizon Central.

I just might call up verizon and ask them about this. I never get through but jeez, I'm so curious.

Oh by the way.

I JUST MADE MY FIRST BATCH OF HOME-MADE YOGURT. It's sitting in the machine in the living room. I'll know by tonight if I made actual yogurt.

lol

mel

hmm I thought it might be looking different because of the browser but it looks the same of firefox & internet explorer.

I'll have time tonite to look up more info , but have a busy day today.

Melody, does yours look like this demo?

http://webmail.verizon.net/signin/WebmailDemo.jsp

CLICK *VIEW DEMO* button *GO*

My understanding after viewing that demo a few times is that you may have to highlight your text then click the Rich Text button to change it to Plain Text... does that make sense? I wish I had it myself, 'cause then it would be so much easier to test. lol Also take out any extras for the time being ... e.g. signature if you have that. Just till you get it sorted.

ps. Yes, I did read your first message regarding posting to the group, but I was just double checking in case it was a different group. Some groups allow HTML and some don't.

Well, I'll try clicking on and viewing the demo, but the other day, I went to my email, I hit reply, I changed it to Rich Text, hit send ...it came back. Then I did it the other way, I changed it to plain text...it came back.

And when they both came back, they came back with a message from yahoo telling me that "they only accept plain text"

oy veh!!!

But I'll give it another go.

Be back later.

My quiche is calling to me!!!lol

I haven't figured out why our Verizon /yahoo email pages look different yet...

I found some stuff on the yahoo help site.
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/gro...WwKCu9yUoilyR4

and
[We no longer support direct replies to daily digest messages, in order to make the digest format more useful for everyone in the group by limiting difficult-to-read messages.

If you receive the new "fully featured" digest, simply click either the "Reply (via email)" or "Reply (via web post)" links that follow each message within the digest.

If you receive the traditional, text-only version of the daily digest, to reply to a specific message, you can do one of the following:

* Find the individual message on the group Web site and then click the "Reply" button that’s part of each message.

* Click the "reply" button on your email client. Then replace the "No Reply" address in the "to" field with the email address of your group. You should also remember to copy the subject of the message you're replying into the subject field (or the message won’t be placed in the correct topic) and to trim all the irrelevant quoted text out of your message (as a courtesy to the other members of the group to make the digest easier to read).]- http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/gro...GwoGpi_RMilyR4


Here's the whole help page - where I found that info above-
http://help.yahoo.com/l/us/yahoo/gro...members/email/

you can click to expand each topic section, I would start at the top and work my way through the ones that sound like it might be what you need.

Hi Jo:

And I do thank you for trying to help me.

I do not receive the daily digest. I get individual emails in my Verizon email thingee.

I hit reply, and in the subject line it would say "sproutpeople@yahoogroups.com". I then type in my message and hit the send button.

It always comes back with the same message.

"We only support text and not html".

I'm doomed.

lol