Jon wrote:
>Hi Ken,
>
>The reason for the difference in my e-mails is that at work, I post on a
>Macintosh on a much earlier (and more error-prone) version of the AOL
>software.  It posts all e-mail in plaintext.
>
>When I post from home, the AOL version for PC's inserts HTML codes into 
>your
>e-mail without giving you an alternative.
>

What you could do (and I'm not suggesting you do it, but merely offering it 
as a possible alternative) is browse over to www.hotmail.com (or one of the 
other free email websites), register for a free account, and use that 
account to post to the brin list.  I use this email account for only 
brin-related stuff and get no spam at it, whereas on AOL even if I'm not 
using an email address at all, I get spam.

I use multiple hotmail accounts to sort my email.  Brin-related stuff comes 
to this one, jms-related stuff to another, digital audio and music 
composition stuff to yet another...

It's a couple of extra steps to go through for email, but it does have the 
advantage of being free and being accessible from any computer anywhere as 
long as it's connected to the internet and has a web browser.

Again, I'm not condemning you for using AOL, just offering a suggestion in 
case you would like to continue to use AOL without having to deal with it's 
email system, which IMHO sucks.  I hate the fact that it only keeps emails 
for a month.  On Hotmail, the only limit is the amount of space, and it 
gives you 2 megs for free (you can pay for more, but why when you can just 
create another account for long term storage... not that I'd ever do that... 
O:-)

Reggie Bautista
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