Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2001 14:29:08 -0500
Reply-To: Jonathan Lewis <maestroman@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Sender: Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From: Jonathan Lewis <maestroman@WORLDNET.ATT.NET>
Subject: FW: more on mime and html polution AOL 6.0
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HTH:
I don't have the faintest idea about how anything works on AOL, but
this problem has cropped on other lists. The following was posted by
the administrator of NYCMoto and the Moto Safety List (these lists
will just block anyone from AOL who includes the garbage in their
posts). See if it works for you AOLers...
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This fix should allow AOL 6.0 users to post to the MAGPIE lists.
Thanks to Patti Gill on the Triumph motorcycle list for this info:
When communicating with Internet recipients who are not using an email program
capable of selecting which MIME section to view, an AOL 6.0 user can
turn off the
HTML using the following steps:
Change your global email preferences (only needs to be done once):
Go to Keyword: Preferences (or choose Preferences from the Settings menu on
the AOL 6.0 toolbar).
Click on Font, Text, & Graphics Preferences.
Click on the Reset button at the bottom of the resulting window. Do not make
any changes in the Font Preferences area of the window.
Click on the Save button.
Change a specific email to plain text (must be done for every email):
Compose and address the email as desired.
Choose Select All from the Edit menu to highlight the entire message.
With the mouse arrow somewhere over the highlighted text, click the Right
mouse button, revealing a contextual menu (AKA Right-Click).
Choose Normal from the Text menu.
Taking care not to make any further changes to the message, send it.
Note that changing the text to normal will eliminate the "blue bar"
quoted text indicator,
but will not remove some HTML elements of the quoted text. The entire
quoted section
must be deleted (or simply not quoted in the first place), followed
by the re-entry of the
text quoted manually, prior to changing the text to normal. Changing
the text to normal
will also eliminate any styled text that would have been seen by AOL
recipients of the
message, which cannot be re-added. Testing also suggests that messages with
hyperlinks cannot be converted to normal text, requiring the prior
removal of the link.
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