On 22 Feb 00 at 12:47, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
>>Here is my question:
>>
>>Why don't AOL users know how to handle attachments? It seems that
>>whenever an AOL user forwards to me some joke as an attachment,
>>the forwarded message will appear represented by an ikon. I click on
>>it and behold, there appears another ikon. I click on the new ikon
>>and it says that it was forwarded before to someone from somebody else. Then
>>there is yet another ikon, etc., almost ad infinitum, almost like an
>>infinite regression. Finally I get to the meat of the matter, the only item
>>of interest, being the "joke-of-the-day", which is already old and stale by
>>the time it gets around to me, because I've already read it earlier on some
>>list server I subscribe to.
>>
>>This business of clicking on attachments containing attachments containing
>>attachments is like opening an envelope containing an envelope containing
>>yet another envelope, etc. This is not fun unless it's your birthday and
>>someone has sent you a birthday card wrapped that way and behold, you find
>>as a present when you finally get down to the card, a greenback bearing a
>>nice engraving of Ulysses S. Grant. I can always use some more of those
>>even though the gentleman is only a most accursed damn Yankee.
>>
>>So what is wrong with the AOL people? Why don't they forward attachments
>>that you need to click on only once?
Sam, you sure hit my hot button! I get a lot of those from my sister
who is on AOL. Not only is their the multiple clicking (same thing in
Pegasus Mail for DOS, BTW) but once you get to the actual attachment,
you have to wade through page after screen page of headers from the
other forwarders and the email addresses that they forwarded it to.
Argh! I guess the email program that AOL uses must handle these
received messages in such a manner that the AOLers don't have to put
up with this, 'cause they sure would not if they had to do this to
see this forwarded junk. It is the bane of my email existence.
Regards,
Dale Mentzer
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