Sam Heywood wrote:
>>While we are discussing the topic of "screwed attachments" I would like
to ask a question that I've always wanted to ask when I should get a
round tuit. Now I've got one.
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,
This is not restricted to AOL subscribers. This is due to people that
receive a message (usually a joke) and forward it on to others, but do not
strip out the headers and other extraneous material that the umpteen previous
reciprients also did not strip out.
Roger Turk
Tucson, Arizona USA
