[DL] Re I dont wanna go on a rant here

["Allan 'Deputy' Seyberth" <moderator@darious.com>]

Matt.
         I truly understand - but I consider it beyond the lists perogative 
to force it's participants to swap ISPs - which is the way I was looking at 
it when AOL6 came out and all of a sudden the settings for email format 
were beyond the control of the users.
         For a similar reason I don't ask AOLers to sign up to even a free 
email service.  It believe that this constitutes a greater hassle for 
AOLers then the hassle we deal with when putting up with their 
posts.  While we are irritated, AOLers having to go to an intermediate 
email program is likely to not bother with the Deadlands lists at all.

         If have asked AB and Richard if it's possible to set the listserv 
up so that html format text (and attachments btw) are automatically 
stripped before transmission - but I haven't heard anything back so it may 
not be possible to do so.  And you can bet that the minute I hear that 
there is a way to turn off html for AOL email, I'll be on it and start 
asking AOLers to do so.

         But until then - I'm afraid that we have to cope with AOL corp's 
arrogance.  It shouldn't be that tough - most of us have been having to do 
the same with MS for years now.  :-)

         Speaking of. . . did you know that your Outlook Express sent your 
message in html format?

:-)




At 12:32 AM 5/31/2001 -0400, you wrote:
>Hey everyone I dont wanna sound like I am going on a rant but what is it 
>people cant understand about no html to the list since it screws with the 
>digest. I know AOL's mail program encodes in html automatically but come 
>on how hard is it to get a damn hotmail account and configure outlook 
>express to use that and just use plain text for the send setting...
>Thanks for hearing me out
>     Matt Noyes

Allan 'Deputy' Seyberth
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