Klarinet Archive - Posting 000831.txt from 2001/05

From: CassildaYhtill@-----.com
Subj: [kl]AOL 6.0 problems
Date: Tue, 29 May 2001 09:43:45 -0400

Mark Charette wrote,
>One of our listers is having trouble posting with AOL 6.0 due to a MIME
>(multipart/alternative) problem - I remember that AOL 6.0 would always
>attach HTML formatted messages in the mail.
>
>Has this ever been fixed in AOL 6.0 to allow just plaintext, and, if so,
>what does a user have to do to make all the messages plaintext?

They never fixed it. There is no way to send plain text in AOL 6.0. Your
person who is having trouble should dump 6.0 and use 5.0. AOL 5.0 is good, a
big improvement over earlier AOL. There are no big advantages to 6.0, nothing
that comes close to making it worthwhile to lose ability to send ASCII text.
AOL keeps putting messages on the Welcome screen, "Why haven't you upgraded
to 6.0?" I didn't because IMHO it is a *downgrade*!

Cass Hill

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