[Qcwa] Test

Tue, 14 Jan 2003 23:11:06 -0500

Bill,

I still have an AOL account that I don't use much. I just did a test, I used
the AOL 5.0 client (because I'm on NT and that's what I need to run). I sent
a test email and it came through in ASCII text, no HTML. Here is part of the
header:

"MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
X-Mailer: AOL 5.0 for Windows sub 108"

So you *CAN* do plain text with AOL 5.0. I don't know about other versions.
I thought it was around version 7 or so that they made the jump to HTML.
FWIW

73,

Mark W1EOF

> -----Original Message-----
> From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]]On
> Behalf Of [email protected]
> Sent: Tuesday, January 14, 2003 10:39 PM
> To: [email protected]
> Subject: Re: [Qcwa] Test
>
>
> Let me help clarify things.  Im also on AoL.  There is no way to
> fully turn off html encoding.  AoL's software since Ver 3 is html
> based and when you turn "off" encoding for e-mail, you are really
> minimizing it -- not turning it off entirely.  If you use  the
> older Ver 2 or DOS ver. 1, it will not generate HTML.
>
> I hope this clears it up.
>
> de
> Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF
>
>
> In a message dated 1/14/2003 10:19:06 PM Eastern Standard Time,
> [email protected] writes:
>
> >Guys, I'm on AOL.7 and using Windows ME. Everytime I send
> something to this
> >QCWA site, there is that message stating stuff had been stripped from my
> >message. And it notes a website to go to to learn how to get the
> HTML off
> >before I send it..
> >
> >Three times I have done exactly what the web site says to do to
> get my email
> >written in plain text. And three times it has been to no avail.
> I'll call AOL
> >tomorrow when I don't mind being put on hold for an 30-45
> minutes. Too late
> >tonight to stay up so late for them to figure it out for me.
> Maybe there's a
> >parasitic over in the corner of my shack!
> >
> >Thanks for putting up with my shenanigans. Have a good evening to all!
> >
> >Raymond � � W5VPU
> >
> >
> >--- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts ---
> >multipart/alternative
> > �text/plain (text body -- kept)
> > �text/html
> >The reason this message is shown is because the post was in HTML
> >or had an attachment. �Attachments are not allowed. �To learn how
> >to post in Plain-Text go to: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html �---
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