Re: What to do about HTML-only email?

[Adam Bailey]

On 2/13/01 12:40 PM, J C Lawrence <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote...

>On Mon, 12 Feb 2001 12:34:35 -0500 
>Charlie Summers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> (*sigh*) First AOL 6.0 is brain-dead enough not to PERMIT sending
>> plain-text email, but now MSN Companion (those silly little web
>> appliances) joins in. 
>
>Yes, this is sad.  Happily AOL and MSN account for less than 5% of
>my subscriber base, and around 1% of my posters so I've not had to
>face this problem much.

Your subscriber base doesn't represent the demographic of the Internet. 
Most list owners see AOL and Hotmail as their two top subscriber groups.

>(Oddly enough two of the more active AOL posters (ie just above
>lurkers) post straight text messages with no HTML -- I haven't
>looked to see how they do this).

They're probably not using AOL 6.


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