Ronn Blankenship <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
... if anyone is sending mail from an AOL address, there is no way
to set the output to "plain text": AOL requires its users to use
its own e-mail program, which only produces messages in HTML.
It is rude to send text such as ><BR></FONT><FONT COLOR="#000000"
Besides discouraging reading, such text raises the costs of
transmission. I have friends, both in the US and elsewhere, who pay
by the minute or by the unit for every character they receive. While
traveling, I suffer equally. I have, for example, received email on a
connection that was slower than 300 baud!
Please, whoever is using AOL: since you cannot use AOL email and also
be frugal and readable at the same time, either stop posting in a
crude, expensive, and unpleasant manner to the Brin list; or else
write to and tell AOL that you are quitting them because their
software prevents you from being frugal and considerate. Thank you.
"Kevin Tarr" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> asks:
Not knowing how exactly the digest works, couldn't it 'process'
the e-mail before it sends it?
Perhaps it could. I am not a system administrator at cornell.edu and
I do not know what the university is willing to permit.
* The university may have chosen a license on its software that
prohibits it from making changes to it; or
* the university may have the freedom to make the changes but not
want to invest the time necessary; or
* the university may believe that it should not transform email that
passes through its lists, since that transformation is a kind of
censorship.
The members of the university may, for example, point out that I
would have difficulty determining what is missing from a digest if
this kind of processing were installed. This means that the use
of this kind of software filter would make it harder for me and
others to discover is someone were making other changes in
addition to mark up filtering.
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Robert J. Chassell [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Rattlesnake Enterprises http://www.rattlesnake.com
