> >> What nuisance?
> >>
> >> I see people complaining of the ads from time to time, but I don't
> >> see what the big deal is. It is just a small banner at the bottom of
> >> the message, and if you get the digest you only get it once at the
> >> bottom of the digest.
> >
> > They are a pain if you read email offline and then when you reach a
> > message with an ad you're reconnected!
>
>Huh?
>The ads I see are just a couple of lines of text about Old School
>Reunions. There is no way that can force a reconnection.

The problem is they probably have the email format set as HTML, not plain
ascii. So it tries and sticks a reference to a graphic located on a server
somewhere, which it tries to download from that server when they view the
email.

Solution? Set your preferences to not automatically connect, or better yet
turn your egroups email settings to plain ascii.

Deron Kazmaier
SoftLogik Publishing
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