If you've ever sent a post to the list and it hasn't shown up for several hours, the problem may be the format you use. No one HAS to do anything because of this announcement, but it may help some of you out.
Because of viruses, our list server is set only to accept & forward posts in the "plain text" format - no fancy formatting, like HTML and MIME, which give you the cool web page or letter-stationary look. The list server holds those posts, and I have to surf to the server and manually release them - in other words, your posts don't get to the list until I get to them. There are so many email/web mailers out there it's impossible for me to tell everyone how to reconfigure their programs. If you're a MIME/HTML fan, the best hope is you have an emailer where you can set a default format for individual addresses (Outlook allows this). You have to create an address book entry for [EMAIL PROTECTED], but there's a check box in the entry that allows plain text. I'm not sure about Outlook Express or Netscape or Eudora or Entourage. Others may just have to fish around your email program and see if you can re-set the default to plain text. If you love HTML/MIME and don't want Minneapolis-Issues' tail to wag your communications dog, then you'll have to tolerate some delay, or figure out how to send list emails in plain text each time. AOL users are trapped, by the way - they won't let you send in anything other than HTML (fancy fascists!). However, one way around this is to set up a Yahoo account (it's free) and use that for your list activities. Last I checked, it is possible to send mail from Yahoo (or configure a third-party emailer like Outlook, even using your AOL connection) to send plain text. Thanks, David Brauer _________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com _______________________________________ Minneapolis Issues Forum - A Civil City Civic Discussion - Mn E-Democracy Post messages to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest option, and more: http://e-democracy.org/mpls
