On Mon, 24 Jun 1996, Peggy L. Hamill wrote:

What's all that garbage in the text? The /plaintext/4/what/ever stuff?

The message was saved in Rich Text Format (*.rtf) and those characters 
are the format control characters.

And I'd like to make a plea to people posting stories:  can you use plain 
ASCII text when ever possible...  it makes life so much easier.

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