Some help from international list members?

[Kelley]

Hi, everyone--

I'm hoping maybe someone can help me out here.  In the last few
years the main list has gained more members living in Asian, 
African, Middle Eastern countries.  Now and again, one of these
members will try to reply to a discussion post and the message
will show no new text/comments from them at all.

Iirc, the messages are usually sent by email (also usually from
a yahoo.co.whichever country account, if I'm remembering right), 
and they're in html format instead of plain text.

I'll reply letting them know that no new text from them came 
through in the message, allowing for the possibility that they 
hit send before they meant to, but I also suggest that they try
sending their message in plain text rather than html/graphics, 
too.

Sometime last year, or maybe earlier this year, a fellow living
in Egypt joined and was encountering these problems.  I managed 
to catch him on YM, and we just could not determine what the 
problem was.  I suggested he try posting by plain text and/or
just post by webview instead of email, but I don't believe he
tried either option in the end.  There *was* a slight language
barrier, but I think he just felt discouraged and gave up.

And just a day or so ago a new member from India tried to reply
to a discussion post, but instead of the message being sent to
the group's posting address (HPforGrownups at yahoogroups.com) it
went to the owner address (HPforGrownups-owner at yahoogroups.com).
When I tried to read the message, Outlook Express gave me a 
prompt telling me I'd need to install the Arabic language pack 
to read the message properly.

So, is the 'problem' that these list members may not be using
English text when they post?  We've got many members from India,
elsewhere in Asia, Africa, various countries in the Middle East
who have no trouble at all posting, so I'm hoping one of you can
explain to me what might be the problem for these other folks.

They're mostly, to the best of my recollection, using Yahoo email
accounts, so is there some setting or option they need to change
to fix this?  (Unfortunately, I haven't kept detailed records of
these messages, so it may very well be they're using a variety
of email accounts, and/or that they're trying to post in plain 
text as well as html, etc.  I *really* wish I had kept better
records of all this, sigh.)

Any advice would be *greatly, greatly* appreciated!  Thanks, 
everyone..

--Kelley