This is what html email looks like in digest mode. I use eudora and have no
choice. (If the faculty didn't threaten to blow up the adminsitration
building, we'd all still be using pine.) Now do you understand why I
ignore html messages?
Kathy
P.S. I hope this example doesn't get cleaned up along the way and that you
can really see the spaghetti.
>Subject: Re: aol html & real server
>From: <GAmoore at aol dot com>
>Date: Sun, 26 Oct 2003 13:23:03 EST
>
>
>--part1_a2.3e0fe4f3.2ccd6b07_boundary
>Content-Type: text/html; charset="US-ASCII"
>Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
>
><HTML><FONT FACE=3Darial,helvetica><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" FACE=3D"Geneva" F=
>AMILY=3D"SANSSERIF" SIZE=3D"4">Is this more readable? (I set font to 18).<BR=
>>
><BR>
>On Yahoogroups, there is a setting for plain text or html mail and set it fo=
>r plain text, and yet I submit messages without any problem from AOL. My the=
>ory is that Real Systems is using a server of some sort - and it doesn't rec=
>ognize some AOL formating code, which Yahoo and others do recognize.<BR>
><BR>
>Perhaps set Mail (and I am using a Mac with 10.2.8 also) to the
>HTML=20=
>rather than plain. Maybe its just the opposite of what you are doing. By tur=
>ning on HTML reading, it will know how to handle the characters.<BR>
><BR>
>I have been asking all of my questions using Eudora - which I use ONLY for t=
>his list. However, I don't like it. It does not work all the time. It
>keeps=20=
>asking for setup info each time, and the window can not be moved. But I have=
> been making the effort to not offend anyone. (This one was sent with AOL)<B=
>R>
><BR>
><BR>
><BLOCKQUOTE CITE STYLE=3D"BORDER-LEFT: #0000ff 2px solid; MARGIN-LEFT:
>5px;=20=
>MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px; PADDING-LEFT: 5px" TYPE=3D"CITE"></FONT><FONT COLOR=3D"#0=
>00000" FACE=3D"Geneva" FAMILY=3D"SANSSERIF" SIZE=3D"4">I use Mail. I can't f=
>ind a setting that forces all messages to plain<BR>
>text. I'll keep hunting for it, though. But would that solve the digest<BR>
>problem?<BR>
></BLOCKQUOTE></FONT><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" FACE=3D"Geneva" FAMILY=3D"SANSSE=
>RIF" SIZE=3D"4"><BR>
><BR>
></FONT><FONT COLOR=3D"#000000" FACE=3D"Geneva" FAMILY=3D"SANSSERIF" SIZE=3D"=
>1"></FONT></HTML>
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>
Kathy Kitts, Ph.D.
Washington University
One Brookings Dr.
Earth and Planetary Science
Campus Box 1169
St. Louis, MO 63130
phone: 1-314-935-7219
email: kitts at levee dot wustl dot edu
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