[Ti] AOL only does HTML

[Barry Lyden]

Well, it took them a loooooong time to get with the program, but AOL does
finally support plain text with their Communicator email client. So your
client should be able to use that if she insists on using AOL for OS X.

B


On 10/8/03 10:50 AM, "cbirds" <cbirds at earthlink.net> wrote:

> 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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