On 10 May 01 at 19:07, arachne-digest wrote:
>>Sam,
>>I agree totally with ya on this one! I myself have had to
>>ask more than a few AOL buddies to use the Windows Clipboard
>>and learn "cut 'n paste" when sending email to me, hehe!
>>
>>The problem is AOL doesn't do much to inform its users of
>>the proper way to use email, especially sending email to
>>other Internet users, outside of AOL. AOL started out as
>>a BBS in Virginia, quickly outgrew itself...even up til a
>>few years ago it was unusual to successfully login to AOL
>>on the first dialup. The method I've employed is to simply
>>take it upon myself to inform AOLers about "how to" attach
>>files instead of simply "forwarding" the message.
Boy, you're preaching to the choir here!
>>And yes, Arachne has a fit with AOL forwarded emails! I've had to open up
>>to 10 different "messages" just to get to the original
>>message. Once again, I just try my best to educate the masses!
>>A Wiz's work is never done, ya know! Hehe!
It's worse than that when using Pegasus Mail (DOS, of course). I've
had 2 of those messages that you click, click, etc. and finally they
crashed my computer causing a spontaneous reboot. I did not EVEN try
to read them with Insight, I just sent them to the cosmic bitbucket
where they belong.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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