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To: GraceZ who wrote (21488)	4/23/2000 5:14:00 PM
From: David Nelson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 29970

I gave up trying to cross the two a long time ago. It doesn't always happen, but it happens enough times that it trained me to use AOL to send to AOL and use my regular ISP to send to everybody else. AOL also has a hard time forwarding attachments. It does not support all Mime features. When customers send email with links to an AOL user, the links are lost and it becomes necessary to forward them to Outlook Express or some other pure Mime based email program to recover the links. I have to wrestle with this problem too because my main email address was at AOL exclusively from 1993 up until 1997 (I still maintain it today). Prior to that time I used MCI Mail, and it took years to convert all old contacts to my new address at AOL. In the publishing field, MCI mail was the preferred communication method prior to wide acceptance of the Internet such as we know it today. And before that we used a mail program on Version 7 and BSD on PDP11s and Vaxes and later, SVR4 Unix systems connected via Mux to Arpanet (pre internet). The Internet and the Mime standard have been a God send for communications but AOL's rickety mail system predates Mime standards in use today and has held together well over the years with bailing wire and masking tape. That's the horn. We're underway. I have to go above deck now and spill some beer! Have you ever tried email over ham radio connected to the Internet? These boat people are pretty inventive, eh? Back-up the truck! --Dave