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Re: Saving and Opening List Boxes

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Subject: Re: Saving and Opening List Boxes
From: Terry Ford <tmford at shaw dot ca>
Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 09:47:56 -0800
References: <8c dot 6d32542 dot 2d986064 at aol dot com> <B3F844F6-80DD-11D8-9FC2-000A95983FBE at ljug dot com>

On 28-Mar-04, at 9:31 AM, Will Leshner wrote:


On Mar 28, 2004, at 9:07 AM, GAmoore at aol dot com wrote:

I would kindly suggest that Real alter their server so as to strip down to only the text, and then format it at some uniform size and font. In this way, everyone will be happy, the messages will all be readable to everyone, and these
regular scoldings can stop. Something like this :
--------------------------------------------------------
tempString = ""
for i = 0 to len( IncomingEmailText )
   X = asc( mid( X, i))
if ((X >= asc("a") and (X <= asc("z")) then tempString = tempString +
chr(X)
if ((X >= asc("A") and (X <= asc("Z")) then tempString = tempString +
chr(X)
if ((X = asc(".") or (X = asc("?") or (X = asc("!") or (X = asc(" ") or X
= <tab> ) then
           tempString = tempString + chr(X)
   end if
next
IncomingEmailText = tempString
---------------------------------------------------------


I'm not sure what the above is supposed to do. The problem is that your email has HTML tags embedded in it. And you can't just strip them out. But if there is a plain-text version of your message, which there is in your case, then the message could be mucked with to remove the HTML part.

I don't know enough about various email quirks yet but I have a couple of observations.

1. When I reply in Mail.app, all the HTML code disappears in the Reply and appears as plain text.
2. I have also seen some AOL server mail that isn't Tiny.

Another question. Is it possible to use Mail.app in AOL instead of their built in client?

Just curious,

Terry


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