Return-Path: <nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id g6JLhRX13581; Fri, 19 Jul 2002 17:43:27 -0400 (EDT) Date: Fri, 19 Jul 2002 17:43:27 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <NGBBJDHKPMGKJEBFMDKOKEECCDAA.dbaycich@literacy.kent.edu> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Dianna Baycich" <dbaycich@archon.educ.kent.edu> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-assessment@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ASSESSMENT:158] Help for AOL users X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook IMO, Build 9.0.2416 (9.0.2910.0) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: O Content-Length: 1764 Lines: 61 Hi, List subscribers that use the embedded email client in AOL's application for email service have experienced problems sending email to NIFL's lists since the implementation of the attachment filter. Basically the problem is that the embedded email client that AOL provides does not provide the capability to send "plain text" messages. All email is sent as HTML formatted messages which include the message body as an attachment. Hence, the rejection of their messsages by the attachment filter. (AOL users should complain loudly about the lack of plain text capability to AOL.) Do not dispair though as I've found a solution/workaround... AOL provides a web based interface to AOL mail. The default format for email sent from AOL's web based interface is, as luck would have it, "plain text". To use AOL's web based interface to AOL mail start a browser (Netscape, Internet Explorer, AOL's embedded browser, etc.). Go to www.aol.com. Near the top of the resulting page there will be a section titled "AOL Members Sign On". Enter your screen name and password (as you would if you were logging into AOL's application) and click Sign On. Once logged on the user will be taken to a page that says Welcome <screenname>. Below the Welcome <screenname> is a mailbox icon. Click on the mailbox icon. The user will be taken to AOL's web based email interface (it looks remarkably like the email client embedded in AOL's application). Users will be able to read and send email just as they would if they were using the embedded email client in the AOL application with the exception that they can, by default, send plain text messages. Hope this helps. Lee -- Lashley H. Mann II | Titan Systems | www.titansystemscorp.com/testeval
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