At 10:04 PM -0800 11/21/00, J C Lawrence wrote:
and since AOL 6.0 for windows no longer has any provision for text-only operation, you now have no choice but to deal with MIME in some way. they no lnoger HAVE the option to turn MIME off. So the server has to figure it out.
Ahh. That explains why I've been rejectting so many postings from AOL members on my lists lately (I don't allow HTML as an aid to promoting high signal lists).
yup. and you can't turn it off. There's no option. You HAVE to deal with multipart-alternative and pull the right pieces out, or their dead in the water. Any list that can't handle MIME e-mail is incompatible with AOL 6 for windows now...
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