From: not.jim.silverton@erols.com 
  
 "James Silverton"  wrote in message 
 news:41412943$0$6904$61fed72c@news.rcn.com... 
 > 
 > "Paul Ebermann"  wrote in message 
 > news:chr3tj.3vvbsov.1@hamster.epaul.my-fqdn.de... 
 > > "James Silverton" skribis: 
 > > > 
 > > > "James Silverton"  wrote in message 
 > > > news:4140aede$0$6926$61fed72c@news.rcn.com... 
 > > > > 
 > > > > "Thad"  wrote in message 
 > > > > news:2qbkneFsr5i5U1@uni-berlin.de... 
 > > > 
 > > > Just a quick comment. If the above message arrived in a large 
 > heavy 
 > > > font as it did on my machine, it is because I sent it as a reply 
 > and 
 > > > somehow the original font was used. I'll have to see if I can do 
 > > > something about it after this note! 
 > > 
 > > In the message is not a font declared - it's plain text, 
 > > as it should be on usenet. 
 > > 
 > > Your newsreader seems to layout messages in 
 > > an uncommon encoding (ISO-8859-2) another way. 
 > > 
 > > (Mine does, too - but it's only a very slight 
 > >  difference in Font.) 
 > > 
 > > You can change this via Tools -> Options -> Read -> Fonts 
 > >  (Assuming these are the names - I use the german version.) 
 > > 
 > 
 > Thanks! I have not had time to sort this out but this is the only 
 time 
 > the heavy large font has appeared. It's not a big enough nuisance to 
 > merit a lot of work but I may figure it out yet! 
 > 
 I had an idea and checked the details of the messages. The normal font 
 for most messages I send and receive is given by charset=us=ascii. 
 Messages in the far from slightly different large heavy font are in 
 charset="iso-8859-2". It seems that if I reply to a message in the 
 latter charset the setting remains. I don't know if this a feature of 
 Internet Explorer but I guess you are right about iso-8859-2 since my 
 default font is supposed to be set as US-ascii in 
 Tools...Options...Read...Fonts. 
  
 Jim. 
  
 Jim. 
  
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