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rpn> I did that as well, but the messages received are HTML. I did discover that
rpn> clicking on the icon in the body of the message will allow me to save the
rpn> statement to my hard drive as an HTML document that can be read using
rpn> Internet Explorer.
Does anyone know of a program that, will save the HTML web page as
text, I know the HTML can be stripped from a saved document using NoteTab
but that requires double handling.
regards,
foolsgold
rpn> That's a lot easier than surfing to the web site every
rpn> day and could be an effective workaround. Looks like it's a dead end trying
rpn> to convince IB to offer both, they aren't listening. Here's the last email
rpn> 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
rpn> He can be reached at ssanders@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx for anyone who wants
rpn> to send their opinion, but it doesn't sound like they're open to
rpn> suggestions from lowly customers. Really wouldn't be a big deal for them to
rpn> offer options, I guess their programmers are too inexperienced. Maybe
rpn> 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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