Hi DavidThat explains it. I will live with it I guess.Brian From: David Pilling <david@davidpilling.com> To: Pacific Bulb Society <pbs@lists.ibiblio.org> Sent: Thursday, 10 November 2016, 12:48 Subject: [pbs] PBS list text formatting (was voles) Hi Brian, On 10/11/2016 10:43, Brian Whyer wrote: > Can someone explain why my message below has had its single carriage returns deleted One possibility is that you sent your email as HTML - in other words you usually use effects like bold/italics. The PBS list does not allow anything other than plain text - other formats are converted to plain text before being sent out. There is a convention that single line breaks are white space and can be ignored and double line breaks are to be treated as such. I've been sending plain text emails since 1985 - all this modern stuff with fancy fonts and pictures - bound to end in trouble. Seriously the PBS list has a lowest common standard approach. One day we might change. (notice double line breaks in above text) (single line break between this line and the previous one) -- David Pilling http://www.davidpilling.com/