[MR] AOHell and HTML Garbage

[BATCOK at aol.com]

In a message dated Thu, 20 Sep 2001  8:37:18 AM Eastern Daylight Time, "Ginny
Barnett" <bethoc at peoplepc.com> writes:

> Now, if anyone has a clue how to turn off HTML in AOL, please respond to the
> list and let us all know how.  Then, in the future, when someone sends an
> HTML message, we can write them privately and tell them how to turn it off.
> Fair enough?
> 
> -- Bethoc ingen Alpin
> 
> 

Unfortunately, AoL6 removed the capability to switch between HTML and text for E-mail (probably to make code space for those emoticon/smilies they added).  AoL users can go to www.AoL.com and use the crippled E-mail service there (no spell checker or text wrapping features, as this message will show you), but you loose other capabilities when you do that (no ability to archive messages or access to archived messages for example).

I am afraid that the future of the internet (unless AoL changes things in version 7) is going to be HTML in E-mail to make things pretty for those who want pretty.

Michael Batcok
Who has researched this issue for two other lists.