[thelist] AOL and HTML email
Patrick Berry
pberry at piratehaven.org
Tue Jul 24 22:31:23 CDT 2001
>>> Charlie Llewellin had the thought that... <<<
> A litle while back there was discussion of HTML email, and someone mentioned
> in passing that you should always send text to AOL users. I meant at the
> time to ask why, and am now only just doing so.
>
> I send HTML email to AOL users - I have a test AOL account where I get this
> mail and it all seems to work fine (AOL 6 on Windows 98) - can anyone tell
> me why sending HTML to AOL is such a bad idea?
>
> Charlie
As has already been mentioned, previous to AOL 6, html email wasn't
viewable. There is a special rtf formated text that could be sent to
aol users though.
see http://webmaster.aol.com for a wealth of info on aol clients.
Pat
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