At 08:22 AM 3/24/2003 -0500, Rich Greenberg wrote:
>I wonder where that came from.  It wouldn't normally be in a post that
>a user originated,  I suspect that it happens when a post is followed
>up.

The key to the problem is in the "Subject:" field of the message:

Subject: Fwd: [SIBERNET] Need Advice....  Please!  Update....

Your subscriber forwarded the message, why I don't know, but she forwarded
it nonetheless.  When mail is forwarded from AOL, the AOL mail client
includes the forwarded message in the body of the message AND adds it as an
attachment.

I tell AOLers to NEVER, EVER forward to my list (of course I recommend that
no one forward anything to the list, but I add special emphasis for the AOL
types, bless their naive newbie hearts).

>In AOL mailer 8,  can you turn off this behavior?  Even if you can, is
>an AOL user capable of doing it?

The only way they can turn it off is to avoid forwarding.  Tell them to
always send a new message or to use "Reply."  Of course they cannot set
their mail to send plain text in version 8 (I don't think they have been
able to do it since vesion 5 - See: http://www.expita.com/nomime.html#aol8 )

Jan

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