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I did that as well, but the messages received are HTML. I did discover that
clicking on the icon in the body of the message will allow me to save the
statement to my hard drive as an HTML document that can be read using
Internet Explorer. That's a lot easier than surfing to the web site every
day and could be an effective workaround. Looks like it's a dead end trying
to convince IB to offer both, they aren't listening. Here's the last email
I received from them:
>>Text statement generation takes a lot of system resources to produce and we
>>will not be producing them in the future as already communicated. We always
>>try to deliver a product that the majority of our customers want while
>>trying to minimize our costs to deliver the lowest commissions. Given the
>>overwhelming majority of customers prefer to read their statements on our
>>site, and the small number who don't generally have an html email reader we
>>feel we have covered most of the bases.
>>
>>Sincerely,
>>
>>Steve Sanders
He can be reached at ssanders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx for anyone who wants
to send their opinion, but it doesn't sound like they're open to
suggestions from lowly customers. Really wouldn't be a big deal for them to
offer options, I guess their programmers are too inexperienced. Maybe
that's why Trader WorkStation still has a Win 3.1 interface.
>>One can re-enable the emailing of yesterday's trades, by a checkbox
>>option in the "Account Management". RTFM for more. I've enabled it since
>>3-Apr-2003 and no problems sofar.
>>
>>But we should ask them for an option to email the daily trades report as
>>PLAINTEXT ASCII email (vs HTML email they now send, if you check the
>>abovementioned option) like before.
>>
>>Regards, M
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