Return-Path: <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Received: from literacy (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by literacy.nifl.gov (8.10.2/8.10.2) with SMTP id h9THbAV21181; Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:37:10 -0500 (EST) Date: Wed, 29 Oct 2003 12:37:10 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <B24038C0D3E160419E320030D92C22DE0121AFA3@hobbes.cal.org> Errors-To: listowner@literacy.nifl.gov Reply-To: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Originator: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Sender: nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov Precedence: bulk From: "Lynda Terrill" <lterrill@cal.org> To: Multiple recipients of list <nifl-esl@literacy.nifl.gov> Subject: [NIFL-ESL:9580] Update on sending messages from AOL X-Listprocessor-Version: 6.0c -- ListProcessor by Anastasios Kotsikonas Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Content-Type: text/plain; Status: RO Content-Length: 1567 Lines: 45 Dear Listers, Here's some updated information (from NIFL) about sending messages in Plaintext format. Lynda Terrill lterrill@cal.org ******************* **If you are using AOL 9.0 Optimized it is easy to draft and > send messages in > Plaintext format. First you open an email window and right > click inside the > message blank. A pop-up menu will appear and at the very > bottom of the pop-up > there is a "Compose as Plain Text" choice. Click on that > option and you will see > that the font attributes bar choices dims out. This takes > away the ability to > put any HTML codes, such as BOLD, ITALICS, font colors, back > ground, and > embedded graphics and such in the message. > > To test this you can again right click in the message blank > and the pop-up > will have "Compose as HTML" as the bottom choice. Click on > that choice and you > will see that the font attributes bar lights back up again. > OK. Right click > again and select "Compose as Plain Text" and you can type and > send your message > to the NCVA list without upsetting Bill. > > The next time you open an email window it will automatically > default to the > "Compose as HTML" mode, so you only have to change it if you > want to draft and > send a plaintext message. > > This procedure is only guaranteed to work in the latest > release of AOL 9.0 > Optimized. I do NOT know if this works in newer versions > (later builds) of AOL > 8.0 IMI 8.0 but it may as AOL sometimes sends new or updating code to > subscribers who use older versions of AOL.
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