From: Cottrell, Eric (ecottrell_at_Doble.com)
Date: Tue Apr 07 1998 - 11:15:33 EDT
Hello,
I had problems reading it using the latest version of Microsoft
Exchange.
It showed it as a bunch of files and I could not display the HTML with
an external reader when I clicked on the attachments. So I just
chucked it.
In general it is better to post a url instead of all the relevant pages.
All my mailers have the capability to turn a email url into a link and
I just click on it. I person without the capability can cut and paste
into a browser. Plus it makes the message smaller.
If we allow HTML messages then we might as well include binary postings
as well. Include several gif files and they are similar in message
size.
I belong to other mailing lists that do not allow either. I prefer it.
Unfortunately it is getting more difficult to just send plain text as
the newer
versions of browsers that can do email default to sending all kinds of
junk (even two copies, one plain, one with formatting). I find that
being
able to do fancy formatting does not add to the message and sometimes
due to a small font size or color chosen difficult to read. These
features
seem to be thought up by marketing types for the whiz-bang factor rather
than the practical factor. They seem to think every one on the Internet
is running Windows 95 or NT with the latest browser.
I subscribe to this list for thinkpad information, not because the
messages
look pretty.
73 Eric ecottrell_at_doble.com WB1HBU
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>From: Randal Whittle[SMTP:rwhittle_at_usa.net]
>Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 1:29 AM
>To: Paul Khoury
>Cc: LPLarsen; ThinkPad List
>Subject: Re: Fw: Classifieds2000 found 5 computers
>
>At 11:11 PM 4/6/98 , Paul Khoury wrote:
>>The next time you send attachments, can you please make them readable?
>>I cannot read them, and they appear as AT0000x.ATT (x being 1 and up).
>
> Actually Paul, his "attachment" was really just an in-line HTML mail.
>Some mail readers (notably Netscape's & Eudora 4.0) read this just fine,
>but other mailers (I note that you are using PMMail for OS/2), not knowing
>how to show the mailing, just handle it as an attachment.
>
> For those of us using a more capable mailer (Grin!), it came through
>perfectly fine and looked pretty darn good to boot--basically it was a web
>page in my E-Mail.
>
> It wasn't an attachment per se, it was a mailing format that some people's
>mailers just can't read. Personally, I liked getting it. :-)
>
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>Randal J. Whittle whittle_at_usc.edu (213) 740-7775
>Director, Electronic Commerce Program
>Marshall School of Business, University of Southern California
>
>
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