OT: AOL question

sarah bennett said:

George wrote:
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Quoted message said:

I was working on a project and needed to send an attachment to an aol
user. After numerous times of trying every permutation he just
couldn't open the file. I ended up putting the file on a website and
sending him the link.

yeah, but did the link work? 🙂

No, I had to talk him through opening IE and entering the link there.

Sheldon said:

Doug Kanter said:

How about this: An AOL user forwards a message. I open the message. The
forwarded message is there not in text, but as an attachment. I open the
attachment and see another attachment, hoping it's the actual text. Nope.
It's another attachment. It's like those Russian dolls, smaller and smaller
and smaller.....

That has nothing to do with AOL, has only to do with the particular
attachment... the same attachment would do the same thing regardless
from which ISP sent or which ISP sent to. You are truly a NEWBIE...
and of course you are a stupid NEWBIE for even opening said attachment.

Actually if you look at the history of aol you will see why aol is the
problem.

aol was/is an online service known for its valuable features such as
emoticons and an overdone interface. That was OK because users only
communicated with other aol users.

All other mail servers don't touch or change the mail content. So if you
are sending/receiving between anyone *except* aol there is typically no
problem. At some point the Internet became popular and aol eventually
got forced into gatewaying its users (still using that proprietary
interface intended to communicate with other aol users) onto the
Internet. That is why there are so many issues.

Peter Aitken said:

A friend who uses AOL has asked me how, when she replies to an email

Quoted message said:

Peter Aitken
Remove the [censored] from my email before using.

highlight the text you want to quote (from the email you're replying
to)

you don't have to say "copy" just highlight and hit reply

there it is

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Quoted message said:

Doug Kanter said:

How about this: An AOL user forwards a message. I open the message. The
forwarded message is there not in text, but as an attachment. I open the
attachment and see another attachment, hoping it's the actual text. Nope.
It's another attachment. It's like those Russian dolls, smaller and
smaller
and smaller.....

That has nothing to do with AOL, has only to do with the particular
attachment... the same attachment would do the same thing regardless
from which ISP sent or which ISP sent to. You are truly a NEWBIE...
and of course you are a stupid NEWBIE for even opening said attachment.

Unfortunately for your twisted explanation, this problem only occurs with
emails sent to me by AOL users, meat sock. And, I open any attachment I want
without problems of any kind, with no concerns whatsoever about malevolent
files, due to various levels of protection which you wouldn't understand
because you use AOL.

Doug Kanter said:

Quoted message said:

Doug Kanter said:

How about this: An AOL user forwards a message. I open the message. The
forwarded message is there not in text, but as an attachment. I open the
attachment and see another attachment, hoping it's the actual text.

I think that is just a preference of the sender? Send reply with quoted
material inline or as attachment.

"Goomba38" <[email hidden]> wrote in message
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Quoted message said:

Doug Kanter said:

Quoted message said:

Doug Kanter wrote:
> How about this: An AOL user forwards a message. I open the message. The
> forwarded message is there not in text, but as an attachment. I open
> the
> attachment and see another attachment, hoping it's the actual text.

I think that is just a preference of the sender? Send reply with quoted
material inline or as attachment.

I agree that it might be an option that can be adjusted by AOL victims, but
it's difficult to understand why they'd all select the worst option.