nbsp in e-mail

Occasionally the recipient of my e-mail says that the term nbsp appears throughout the message. I'm not sure, but I think it may only happen to recipients who have AOL. My ISP is a cable Optimum Online and my e-mail uses Netscape Messenger. Does anyone know what is nbsp?

Thanks,

grandpa

 

I think you mean "& nbsp" (space inserted so that the text shows!) which is HTML code for a non-breaking
space.

The recipient of your messages is not viewing in HTML format (or has a client which does not support HTML) and so is seeing the unformatted code.

Sending mail to this particular recipient in Plain Text format (rather than HTML/Rich Text format) will resolve the issue.

 

Thanks for the reply, Brett. I'm a bit surprised, though, because this recipient uses AOL, which I'm sure supports HTML/Rich Text format. However, I'm not going to lose any sleep over it.

Thanks again,

Grandpa

 

Hmmm ... you're probably right. Maybe, like OE, the AOHell mail client has the ability to display messages in Plain Text format only.