From: "Tom Neff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Tue, 11 Jul 2000 10:18:20 -0400
It may very well have to do with something AOL is doing in HTML filtering.
Given the prevalence of < > based markup languages (HTML, XML etc) these
days, I would consider it most unwise to put angle brackets around my list
name. Adam is right, use square brackets instead.
Both of you said this, yes. But if you recall my post you'll see that this
is the lessor of two problems.
Well first of all I refuse to change something that's worked well for me
for years just because AOL can't handle it. For the same reason, I won't
use HTML to surround a perfectly good (and plain) URL just because the AOL
mailer appearently doesn't do what every other mailer does (point and click
or cut and paste).
But anyway...
The real problem is the authentication message for my mailing list
software. If I want to run my lists at best.com (and I do) then I have to
use their software and it uses angle brackets in the subject header.
Adding a period causes authentication to fail and then all these AOLers run
to me to subscribe them by hand.
Even if I had any control over that software (the person at Best who wrote
it no longer works there and best has never alloted staff hours to mailing
lists) I consider it AOL's problem, not Best's.
Has anyone written AOL to complain? what would be the address to complain?
What is AOL's official response? I know there are AOL staff people on this
list; can anyone comment?
Cyndi
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