Mark the date. I'm not only siding with Charlie, I'm going farther than he
did. He wrote, addressing Tom,
S> I have simply chosen a different, less
S> processor-intensive, more poster-intensive, route than you have.
Unless the poster is on a setup (such as AOL 6.0) that pushes HTML mail onto
customers with all the selections preset, I've found that plain text is
*less* poster-intensive. The writer doesn't have to pick out stationery,
typefaces, colors, borders, type sizes, emphasis styles, and all those other
things that would leave me scratching my head for what to choose if I
couldn't send plain text.
Michelle has followed up,
D> The reason I asked is that I have two AOL 6.0 subscribers
D> who are making a good faith effort to figure out how to send
D> plain text.
If it's only two of them, can't they just write to you and ask you how it
turns out? And if they go to AOL's webmail interface (I think it's
http://webmail.aol.com or http://mail.aol.com) it's fairly easy to send
plain text, as I understand. Adam Bailey went to a lot of work to discover
how to trick the built-in mailer of AOL 6.0 to send plain text against its
own will, but the procedure he found is far more involved than sending from
AOL webmail.
