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Subject: Re: HTML and AOL
From: "James B. Byrne" <ByrneJB @ Harte-Lyne . ca>
Organization: Harte & Lyne Limited
Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2000 18:24:32 -0500
To: majordomo-users @ greatcircle . com
In-reply-to: <3A1F0DE9.3F795C76@toc-cs.com>

On 24 Nov 2000, at 16:55, I received this message:

> In the last couple of weeks we've had two people on the ABCD mailing
> list who upgraded to AOL 6.0 and discovered that the new version of
> AOL is HTML only.  They cannot switch to plain text, so they are
> unable to post to the list.
> 
> I can tell that this is going to turn into a major headache.
> 
> I thought I'd write you and let you know what we've run into.  Other
> administrators on other lists may be encountering the same problems.
> Or they're about to.

1.	Is there actually no way to turn off html formatting from the AOL 
mailer?

2.	If this isn't true then how do you do it?

3.	If it is true then how can majordomo handle it?  Anyone out there 
with a pre-processer to strip of html tags and reformat incoming 
messages as text?
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