From: Carl W. Conrad (cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu)
Date: Sat Jul 07 2001 - 10:22:20 EDT
At 9:37 AM -0400 7/7/01, CWestf5155@aol.com wrote:
>Carl,
>
>In a message dated 7/6/01 3:03:28 AM Pacific Daylight Time,
>cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu writes:
>
>>As most list-members are aware, we have been urging list-members to avoid
>>using styled text or MIME text styles in messages to the list, for the
>>primary reason that every such message appears in duplicate in the daily
>>Digest format in which many members receive list messages; such duplicates
>>are not simply twice as long but sometimes as much as 3x as long because
>>the second part is set in HTML coding. Several new list-members have
>>recently told me that they can't write messages in plain-text in AOL and
>>that the AOL advisers have not been at all helpful. I'm re-sending this
>>message from Jay Adkins in February of this year, hoping it may be helpful
>>to some who are having that difficulty.
>>
>
>
>My text is apparently as plain as it gets, and I believe that you are still
>getting a duplicate. Of course the length is significantly increased if I
>change my font or add any feature. The only way that I was told that I can
>control this is by logging on to the web page--if I write from the e-mail on
>the AOL web page, it will print in plain text. However, I think that I'd
>have to use another server to log on to the web page, which I don't have at
>home.
>
On the contrary, your messages are coming to me as styled text, which is
the reason why they appear in duplicate in the digest. My response, which
will reproduce your message, will be in plain-text because I'm given that
option in Eudora every time I respond to a mime-format message.
--
Carl W. Conrad
Department of Classics, Washington University (Emeritus)
Most months: 1647 Grindstaff Road/Burnsville, NC 28714/(828) 675-4243
cwconrad@artsci.wustl.edu OR cwconrad@ioa.com
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