Thank you for your newsletter and all the hard work that undoubtedly goes into keeping us informed. I would like to make a suggestion. Could you possibly distribute the newsletter as a word attachment? This is because it loses all its's formatting when you send it directly as a message. This makes it extremely difficult to read or even to skim, as words are broken up by = signs and new paragraphs are formed mid sentence. I appreciate that you will then face the challenge of different word ve...read more
Thank you for your newsletter and all the hard work that undoubtedly goes into keeping us informed. I would like to make a suggestion. Could you possibly distribute the newsletter as a word attachment? This is because it loses all its's formatting when you send it directly as a message. This makes it extremely difficult to read or even to skim, as words are broken up by = signs and new paragraphs are formed mid sentence. I appreciate that you will then face the challenge of different word versions and indeed different hardware, but there may be some simple way of overoming this. I hope so. Best wishes for the future!
OUR RESPONSE: Thank you for your suggestion. We send it as plain text precisely because usually it displays best - in your case it appears that the "MIME" settings in your e-mail software are configured incorrectly. On the other hand, not all of our subscribers have software to read attachments or Word documents. You might wish to speak to the technical support people at Oxfam who will be able to advise you on the settings you should use. If you still have difficulties, why not retrieve the web page using our www4mail server - you will get the newsletter in all its glory as it appears on our website! You can always get the current newsletter by writing to [email protected] with only the URL below in the body of the message:
http://www.kabissa.org/kfn/newsletter.php
And while you are doing that, we hope that you will be encouraging Oxfam's partners in Africa to get their free subscription to the Kabissa-fahamu Newsletter.