Setting your mail to send messages as Plain Text:

Some people using web-based email programs have their email set up to send messages with HTML coding. For those of us subscribing to the digest versions, the HTML coding makes the messages extremely cluttered, and even for regular accounts, the formatting characters may clutter up the message. A useful web site that gives instructions on how to set up different kinds of email programs to send text messages.

send the email as TEXT not HTML - see the following link:

http://www.geocities.com/econ_10330/encoded_email.html

(Thanks, Michael Rock)