To Mailing List Administrators: Jackson County, Clay County, Platte County, Wyandotte County, Kansas City Please see the note below that I received from a Pennsylvania List Administrator regarding HTML vs plain text. I just changed my format over to plain text. I checked the archives for the five Mailing Lists above and it appears that only the Kansas City Mailing List has all the mail that I've posted. The last postings on the other Lists are dated October 7 even though I've sent postings every day (Oct 8 through today). I sent a posting using plain text to the Jackson County, Wyandotte County, and Kansas City Mailing Lists about 45 minutes ago. Only the Kansas City posting came through, so maybe there are other problems with mail too???? John ----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Swales" <steve@ews-inc.com> To: <PALACKAW-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, October 10, 2003 4:15 PM Subject: [PA-LAC] New E-mail format restrictions > > Hi, Everyone, > > Well... I just got a notice from the rootsweb e-mail list service saying > that it would not accept e-mail formated as HTML or with attachments... > basically that it will only accept plain text. > > This, and perhaps some other restrictions, may account for some of the > sudden drop off in traffic. > > In thinking about it, I guess that this restriction is probably > reasonable, but may be inconvenient for some people to set up with their > e-mail software. I'm sure some of you are thinking... I'm just typing > plain text, why is it talking about HTML? Or, what IS HTML, anyway? > > HTML is the language that most web pages are written in, and many of the > popular e-mail programs send e-mail using HTML now, so that you can do > things like changing the font, size or color of the text, for example. > Usually this can be turned off, or you may even be able to set it so > that it will turn it off only when sending to certain domains (such as > rootsweb.com). My e-mail program (Mozilla mail) allows me to do that. > > If you have trouble configuring your e-mail to send only plain text, or > if you think this restriction is unreasonable, please contact me about > it. You can use the e-mail address below, > which does accept HTML, by the way :-). > > -steve > > P.S. hopefully I got the HTML stuff turned off, so you can all see this :-). > > -- > Steve Swales > E-mail steve@ews-inc.com > > > > ==== PALACKAW Mailing List ==== > Pennsylvania USGenWeb site for other county pages & lists http://www.usgenweb.org/pa > To unsubscribe: http://www.rootsweb.com/~palackaw/mailist.html#unsubscribe >

John, a number of the Rootsweb lists have been down for a while now due to server problems. The HTML and attachment restrictions have been in place with them for the entire 6 1/2 years that I have been on the lists. Hope this helps. Leslie (Bridges) Kohler ----- Original Message ----- From: "John O'Brien" <JohnOBrien@kc.rr.com> > To Mailing List Administrators: Jackson County, Clay County, Platte County, > Wyandotte County, Kansas City > > Please see the note below that I received from a Pennsylvania List > Administrator regarding HTML vs plain text. > > I just changed my format over to plain text. > > I checked the archives for the five Mailing Lists above and it appears that > only the Kansas City Mailing List has all the mail that I've posted. The > last postings on the other Lists are dated October 7 even though I've sent > postings every day (Oct 8 through today). > > I sent a posting using plain text to the Jackson County, Wyandotte County, > and Kansas City Mailing Lists about 45 minutes ago. Only the Kansas City > posting came through, so maybe there are other problems with mail too???? > > John