> At 11:03 -0500 11/10/03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> In a message dated 11/10/2003 10:27:58 AM Eastern Standard Time, >> [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: >> >>> >>> However, Paula, the bottom line is that you CANNOT send plain text >>> mail from within the AOL software. Why would someone go to the AOL >>> web page to send mail from the computer that has their AOL >>> software >>> installed? >> I don't know what you mean by "you CANNOT send plain text mail >> from within the AOL software". I am using NO OTHER SOFTWARE to send >> this email. >> Why would someone go to the web page to send plain text email? >> Simple, because their default is to send HTML and if you want to >> send plain text, they made it possible by simply going to the >> webpage. It takes less than 10 seconds to reach my mailbox on the >> webpage (dial up, 56K). >> Paula > > If you are using MAOL 5.x, then yes you CAN send plain text; if you > are using MAOL 10.3, tell me where in the AOL preferences you > selected plain text. There have been a lot of complaints about AOL's > MIME only default setting. I subscribe to a list that strips out any > MIME and all that appears are lines of type that say the message > contained some other than plain text. Of course, I don't use AOL for > email lists, I use Eudora.
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