[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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