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Well, I receive about 300 messages per day.  About 10 of those have
attachments, 5 messages are from Joe with the text as attachment (I have to
double-click on the attachment to open it in Notepad) and about 5 others
from various people, with either winmail.dat or other junk.

It seems that I may be the only one getting Joe's messages as attachment
though, as several people e-mailed me privately that they do not experience
what I am seeing.  One even suggested that my client might be
misconfigured, which is a neat trick, as Joe's are virtually the one
messages coming in that format.

My e-mail client is Outlook 97 (version 8.04.5619), which I have been using
for about 2.5 years now.  Joe's messages started coming in as attachments
about 6-8 months ago when he started using Outlook 2000.  At that time
several other people's messages started doing the same, but now only a few
come this way.  Perhaps these people upgraded to a newer version of Outlook
2000.

But, if I am the only one seeing this, I wouldn't worry about it.  I am
certainly not worth the trouble of chasing this down.

Kind regards,

Denys. . .

Denys Beauchemin
HICOMP
(800) 323-8863  (281) 288-7438         Fax: (281) 355-6879
denys at hicomp.com                             www.hicomp.com


-----Original Message-----
From:   Joe Geiser [SMTP:[log in to unmask]]
Sent:   Monday, 14 June, 1999 12:36 PM
To:     [log in to unmask]
Subject:        Re: HP3000-L becoming unreadable

Oh for Cryin' Out Loud... this has got to be the biggest bunch of malarkey
I've read in today...

> Actually, Joe is the single biggest user of attachments.  Virtually all
his
> messages come with attachments and so are sent to my SPAM folder.  There
> was a spate of these attachments when people started using Outlook 2000,
> especially on the Winnt listserver, however they seem to have abated in
the
> last few months.  To me, only Joe is still sending out attachments.  Are
> others on this list experiencing the same problem with Joe's posts?

A *minority* of people see my posts as attachments.  I have set a default
for HP3000-L for PLAIN TEXT.  Most of the people I correspond with see
PLAIN
TEXT.  When there's a change in mailers here (yes, this is a beta version
of
OL2000), it's one of the first things I configure.

The issue was, and is, and has been, the use of this stupid Windows
character set, which for some reason, cannot be shaken.  It's good to see
so
many mailers still able to see the text and just a minority have a problem.
Since I follow the 80/20 rule, I guess I'm OK.

Now, to put a rule up that has "HP3000-L becoming unreadable" in the
subject
- delete it.  (Thanks to those who did cc: me on their replies, by the way
:)

Joe