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Subject: [LONG-L] HTML mail and attachments
Date: Wed, 24 Jun 1998 23:28:25 EDT

Dear Listmembers,
Rootsweb is now automatically rejecting attachments and html mail.Please
read the following and make any changes to yuor mail if necessary.
Thank You
Lynn Smith

RootsWeb accepts only plain text
mail. That means that HTML mail, attachments, ``enriched text'',
and a few other formats can't be sent to RootsWeb mailing lists.
You can post your message if you send it in plain text; turn off
the ``Post in HTML'' or ``Enriched Text'' features of your mail
reader, or don't use any attachments. See
http://www.rootsweb.com/rootsweb/listowners/html-off.htm for
instructions on turning off HTML in most of the popular mail
programs, or ask your ISP's technical support line for help.

We've had to institute this policy because of the problems that
accompany these fancy mail formats. Some people don't have mail
programs that are capable of processing the special file formats.
Even among those who do, different mail programs handle these
special formats in very different and confusing ways. HTML messages
pose special problems to our digested mailing lists. Most of all,
HTML-ified mail and attachments place a considerable burden on
RootsWeb's overworked machines. All in all, mail in this format
produces a lot of problems for RootsWeb's servers and subscribers,
so we find it's best just to use plain text.

-- The RootsWeb staf

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