On 11/5/04 3:40 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> In a message dated 5/11/2004 3:04:11 AM Eastern Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > >> To send mail direct without HTML simply click on "Format" after you have >> clicked "Create Mail" or "Reply". > > Gary and all, > > Unfortunately, AOL 9.0 does not offer a "plain text" format. Everything is > HTML, which our list rejects. I had the problem when I switched to AOL 9.0, > and I have basically given up posting to the list. It is too much of a hastle > to exit AOL, log back on to www.aol.com via my browser, and go back in to > email that way. Which, for some reason, does send mail in 'plain text'. Like > this message. But what a pain to send it -- and AOL's webmail was playing > games an hour ago, so I had to abandon the attempt. > > Another little AOL 9.0 glitch: it won't add the internet standard ">" at the > start of each line copied into a reply, unlike the web version, which did it > right (see above!) AOL puts a cute blue margin line next to the text which > shows up in AOL, but an external email system converting it to plain text for > delivery to a non-AOL destination strips off the blue line, so you can't tell > what came from the reply and what is new. I am always completely baffled as to why people use this ISP - it seems to have far more disadvantages than advantages and advertises standard features as their own.....maybe it's different in the US. -- Tag Gorton Editor Garden Rail Atlantic Publishers http://www.atlanticpublishers.com/GR.html Editor 16mm Today http://www.16mmngmodellers.org.uk/
