My Current Problem with Active Rain New Comment Notifications... Help!

Dear Active Rainers.  I need some help.  It has to do with the email notification of "new comments" that Active Rain sends out to us.

Usually, when I make a comment on someone else's post... I check the box that will enable any additional comments to be emailed to me.

Also... when I write a post... I always get notification of new comments made on my post.  They are sent to me through email.

I have been using Gmail for several years, and have not had a problem.  But...

For about a week now... when I have been getting notifications from Active Rain showing me "new comments" that have been made on both my blog posts... and the posts on which I have commented on... I have been having problems.

I am using as an example a comment from my friend Gene Mundt... a fabulous lender up in Chicago-land.

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Here is what it looks like in my Gmail email:  [version 1]

Sandy:  I hear ya ... sometimes it's hard to get people motivated to do the right things for themselves.  Give them my contact and I'll see what I can to nudge them ...  technology makes it possible ...

Gene

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Here is what it looks like when I go to the post the comment was taken from:  [version 2]

Sandy:  I hear ya ... sometimes it's hard to get people motivated to do the right things for themselves.  Give them my contact and I'll see what I can to nudge them ...  technology makes it possible ...

Gene

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I know that the first version of the comment is coming through in HTML, and the second version... is just plain text.

I am wondering if anyone else is having this happen. 

Strangely... not all of my comments come through like "version one." 

About half of them do, and sometimes... when there are multiple comments that come to me in email... they are NOT all either in HTML (version 1) or standard text (version 2) but a mixture... kind of like they alternate within the same email.

I don't think it is my computer or my software.  I have tried it both through Firefox and Internet Explorer on my "desktop" computer... and also on both Firefox and Internet Explorer on my lap-top.  All the same.

Again... it has been going on like this for about a week.  I am wondering if once again, the dear folks at Active Rain have "fixed" something else having to do with "new comment notification"... and that in "fixing" it... it has resulted in this HTML and plain text confusion.

       1)  Is anyone else having this problem ?

       2)  Does anyone have any suggestions on what to do about it ?

Thanks so much in advance for any help you can give.

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