[P1] Kinda OT: AOL picture attachments

[Fisher, Patrick]

So basically, AOL mangles attachments. Someone I am getting off of AOL
couldn't get newsletters from their union. They would get mangled. I
heard that if you send more than one picture, AOL zips them. 

Sending pictures BETWEEN AoHell users is easy. It's just in and out of
AOL. 

To tell you the truth, I got extremely frustrated a couple of years back
trying to unravel this issue. And I keep telling the people this happens
to that it has nothing to do with the fact that they have a Mac. Some
people blame their Mac, although I tell them that I have been sending
and receiving pictures for years without a problem using my local mom
and pop ISP.

P

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Pearce [mailto:bpearce at cloud9.net] 

Anyway, a good portion of my job involved sending attachments; we got 
around the problems by always compressing the files with Stuffit and 
BinHexing them, which essentially creates a text file that would emerge 
from AOL Mail unscathed. (I don't really recall what it was that AOL 
would do to make attached picture files so problematic, but this seemed 
to solve the problem.)

BRIAN/bpearce at cloud9.net
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