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AOL and Plain Text Email



I have just received an email from AOL Technical support concerning the 
problem with listervs.  Here is the salient part of their response:

[Begin Quote]
We are aware of some issues raised by LISTSERV owners and Postmasters whose 
systems do not accept richly formatted/HTML mail. We are actively monitoring 
the issue. In the meantime, members who want to send e-mails to Internet 
addresses which reject rich formatting, may use one of the following 
alternatives to send plain text only mail:

1) When authoring mail in AOL 6.0 remove all formatting from the message body 
and send the message in the AOL 6.0 default of Arial, size 10 - do not 
include any bold/italics/underline, colors, or other styles.

2) Use AOL Mail on the Web (at http://www.aol.com) to send mail to Internet 
addresses which reject formatting - AOL Mail on the Web sends mail as plain 
text only.
[End Quote]

For method #2, you can goto www.aol.com from within aol or from any other 
Internet connection.  You can then enter your login information and access a 
web-based version of your email which can send in plain text only.

Hope this helps.

Larry Tagrin
AKA 06767

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