Don Fucich wrote: > Tom, Help - Help. Our local newspaper has gone online and I want > folks to know about it. Can you help ? ? > > Tell Merle Hi for us. > > Don > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Subject: Re: News-Reporter Home Page (http://www.news-reporter.com/) > Date: Thu, 06 May 1999 14:31:50 -0700 (PDT) > From: GAWILKES-L-request@rootsweb.com > To: mudbug@g-net.net > CC: owner-GAWILKES@bl-11.rootsweb.com > References: <004f01be9807$6b59e8c0$bc8590cf@mudbug.g-net.net> > > >From GAWILKES-L-request@rootsweb.com > > > This is a multi-part message in MIME format. > > > ------=_NextPart_000_000C_01BE97E5.D7F03060 > > Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > > The Washington (Wilkes Country), Georgia newspaper, "The News Reporter" has > > just gone online for the very first time with a limited edition. Good > > Things will come. > > > Check it out. > > > http://www.news-reporter.com/ > > > Don > > > ------=_NextPart_000_000C_01BE97E5.D7F03060 > > Content-Type: application/octet-stream; > > name="News-Reporter Home Page.url" > > Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit > > Content-Disposition: attachment; > > filename="News-Reporter Home Page.url" > > > [InternetShortcut] > > URL=http://www.news-reporter.com/ > > Modified=809226BD0698BE0152 > > > ------=_NextPart_000_000C_01BE97E5.D7F03060-- > > Hi -- > > The message you submitted to this list (included above) wasn't > sent to the list subscribers. 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 staff -- Tom Hammack Gulfport, Mississippi