On 7/10/00 12:26 PM, Cyndi Norman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote...

>When there is a word enclosed by angle brackets, AOL is adding a period
>inbetween the open angle bracket and the first character within the
>brackets.

The problem started a couple weeks ago. I was waiting to report it to see 
if it would go away.

>The annoying example is when someone from AOL replies to a message on my
>mailing list.  I have it set up so that all subjects start with <Immune>
>AOL turns this into <.Immune>
>This wouldn't be so bad except that the server software doesn't recognize
><.Immune> so it goes ahead and adds another <Immune>

I would recommend using [ ] brackets instead, as are commonly used by 
other mailing list managers.

In the meantime, I will report the problem to AOL.


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