Hello Arachnids: As if HTML mail were not already bad enough! I have just received from an otherwise respectable corporation an email having an attachment in a format I have never encountered before. After I had decoded the attachment by using MIME64.EXE I still could not read it very legibly with a text viewer. I could see in the attachment, as decoded, some headers identifying it as having been produced with IPM Microsoft Mail Note, whatever that is. From what I could interpret from the rest of the characters, it appears to be simply another type of rendition of the basic text of the email message itself. Has anyone else run across this kind of file type before? What kind of proprietary Gate$ware program would be required to render it properly? What is the point in anyone's sending an attachment that a typical average computer user cannot even view? If it is just another way of generating another kind of rendition of a basic text message, what is the point in sending such an attachment at all? This has just got to be worse than HTML mail. Most people can instantly recognize HTML, and most people have a program for rendering and displaying it properly. I'll bet IPM Micro$oft Mail Note is something that most people have never heard of before. So why are we made to suffer with this kind of thing? What an abomination in the sight of Our Goddess Arachne! Sam Heywood -- This mail was written by user of Arachne, the Ultimate Internet Client
