[thelist] Sending plain text email with AOL

Julia Frizzell Julia_Frizzell at brown.edu
Tue Jan 16 11:25:31 CST 2001


At 2:30 PM -0800 1/15/01, John Dowdell wrote:
>At 9:59 AM 1/15/1, Charles Johnson wrote:
>>Now the problem is the AOL email client, which insists on encoding the email
>>in HTML. We haven't managed to find the setting to turn this off. Anyone
>>know where it is?
>
>It may vary with the version of the AOL client in use. (I've heard a rumor
>that the new AOL6/Win will send newsgroup messages as HTML, which would be
>disastrous.)

Not a rumor. AOL 6 sends *email* in HTML, and there's no way to shut 
it off. It's made some listowners I know rather upset.

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