[Dixielandjazz] attachments et al.

[Rebecca Thompson]

I found this on Google.  Maybe it will explain some of the problems.
I think if everyone uses plain text, the problem with the attachment icon
will go away.

Rebecca
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Here's how you post to the list if you have only AOL 7.0 or 8.0:

AOL 7.0

If you upgrade from AOL 6.0 to AOL 7.0 and up have customized your
fonts/colors, the changes carry over during the upgrade and so you still
need to go into Settings and switch back to the defaults as described above
for AOL 6.0

To turn off HTML, use the following steps:

Change global e-mail preferences (needs to be done only once):
Go to Keyword: Preferences (or choose Preferences from the Settings menu on
the AOL 7.0 toolbar).
Click on Font, Text, & Graphics Preferences.
Click on the Reset button at the bottom of the resulting window. Do not make
any changes in the Font Preferences area of the window.
Click on the Save button.

WARNING: Any attempt to change the font face, size, style, or color within
the body of an e-mail message will change the message format to HTML, as
will any attempt to use a different default font face, size, style, or
color.

Lastly, you must remove your e-mail signature if it contains any styled
text, as that will also change the message format back to HTML.

Like AOL 6, AOL 7 will use HTML when quoting a message (displaying the
quoted portion with a blue line in the left margin). And like AOL 6,
choosing Text - Normal will eliminate any indication that the text was
quoted. However, unlike AOL 6, the message will now be sent in plain text.
However, the quoted portion will need to be manually quoted.

Starting with Netscape Communicator 6.2 and continuing with Netscape 7.0
PR1, AOL members can read and send AOL e-mail via the browser. The browser
fully supports both HTML and plain text messages and even allows you to set
specific domain names (e.g., mailing lists) to always send plain text.

AOL 8.0

The easiest method is to use AOL Mail, for it sends mail as plain text only.

To use AOL Mail on the Web all you need to do is use the AOL keyword "aol
mail".