How to Post -- using AOL

Blee811@aol.com Blee811@aol.com
Tue, 28 Jan 2003 11:50:16 PST
In a message dated 1/28/2003 2:33:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, 
IntarsiaCo@aol.com writes:

Does anyone know how 
to set AOL so it won't do html or is it something we all just have to live 
with?

===>I've been through this with other lists and found that the problem is 
with both AOL and the listserver software. Older listserver software does not 
properly filter/convert the text sent by AOL.  But there is a workaround that 
AOL posters can do.  Look at the following two examples:

#1 This is text I have not converted.


#2 This is text I HAVE converted.  

If #2 looks better to you, then what an AOL subscriber needs to do is select 
(highlight) all the text in the email just before sending it, right click, 
and select Text then Normal.  Then send the text.

If #1 and #2 look the same, then there is probably no solution.
Bill Lee


<HTML><FONT FACE=arial,helvetica><FONT  SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">In a message dated 1/28/2003 2:33:39 PM Eastern Standard Time, IntarsiaCo@aol.com writes:

Does anyone know how 
to set AOL so it won't do html or is it something we all just have to live 
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===&gt;I've been through this with other lists and found that the problem is with both AOL and the listserver software. Older listserver software does not properly filter/convert the text sent by AOL. But there is a workaround that AOL posters can do. Look at the following two examples:</FONT><FONT  COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">

#1 This is text I have not converted.


</FONT><FONT  COLOR="#000000" style="BACKGROUND-COLOR: #ffffff" SIZE=2 FAMILY="SANSSERIF" FACE="Arial" LANG="0">#2 This is text I HAVE converted. 

If #2 looks better to you, then what an AOL subscriber needs to do is select (highlight) all the text in the email just before sending it, right click, and select Text then Normal. Then send the text.

If #1 and #2 look the same, then there is probably no solution.
Bill Lee

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