[Ti] AOL only does HTML

[jpe]

i didn't use a credit card, it was attached to the phone bill. I 
wasn't giving AOL a credit card number.
i coughed it up as I don't have the time to play phone games. Why you 
simply can't cancel online, I don't know.

>On Wednesday, October 8, 2003, at 11:42  AM, William Scammell wrote:
>
>>yuck. $60 of your perfectly good money wasted.
>>i wonder if it would've been easier to cancel via your credit card company?
>
>There is no excuse for this!
>They could have gone to KEYWORD: Billing, and changed it to NO CREDIT CARD.
>Then they call BILLING and tell them as of a certain date, they are 
>NOT paying so now up to them to cut you off.
>AOL should refund you the $60 if you did not authorize any services 
>beyond the free trial.
>
>Most often, when people cancel, they give them an extra free 2 
>months or so, so there should have been no excuse for you to have to 
>have paid that.
>
>If you used a credit card, you could have also called them and 
>instructed them to reject charges from AOL.
>
>I am going to be up against this "no text" problem soon 
>when one of my clients eventually migrates to OS X. (She likes 9 
>better for now, but since AOL 5 is losing a lot of ground on the 
>service, it might be soon) I have set up a Mailman newslist for her 
>so she can send out infrequent read-only newsletters about her 
>upcoming appearances to people who have given their email addresses 
>at past performances. Right now, AOL 5 CAN do plain text, but if she 
>uses AOL for X I will have to have her log into webmail to do it. 
>Fortunately for her, it won't be that often.
>I just automatically set all mailing lists for text only so I have 
>not even explored the Mailman program to see if in this one case it 
>will take HTML posts.
>Then again, as her webmaster, I can aways just send it myself, as 
>relayed from her......
>
>IMHO, big mistake for AOL not to allow plain text.
>
>
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