OK, Bill,
There is a way to set up Outlook to only send in plain text, regardless. On
the screen where you can see all of your message subject lines, pull down
the Tools menu, select options, and then select the tab that says Mail
Format. The top entry there will let you select plain text as your send
mode. That should fix your problem.
Len
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-----Original Message-----
From: Peifer, William [OCDUS] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, September 06, 2001 1:02 PM
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
Subject: RE: MIME, DEMIME, Paal, Pel, Pal, and digests
Hi Len,
The problem is not that I'm getting HTML messages from the list. In fact,
virtually all the ones I get from the list are plain ASCII text. The
problem is that when I hit the reply button in my particular version of MS
Craplook '97 (Aarrgh!! @#*^&%@#), Bill Gates' little gremlins force my
reply message -- by default -- to be sent in MIME. Even the reply I'm now
typing to your text message would be sent out by MS Craplook '97 as MIME --
unless I manually go to the "TO" line and insert the PDML address I set up
in my personal address book (which as I said, I've manually configured to
have the attribute of text only). The worst part is that this little
"feature" wasn't even apparent to me when I first started posting to the
list. Several list members responded to my earliest postings and asked me
to please turn off HTML. Heck, I wasn't even aware that I was sending out
HTML. At least I can ~force~ Craplook to send out messages in text mode. I
remember postings from several AOL users last winter (December?).
Apparently, it's not possible to force their particular version of AOL to
send plain-text e-mail -- these poor souls are stuck with the "feature" of
an HTML-only e-mail interface. Quite a flame war over that whole issue at
the time, as I recall.
Just my eight bits worth....
Bill Peifer
Rochester, NY
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