Sam - Take a look at http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/decode.htm#ms-tnef It contains a pretty good explanation. Dave "Samuel W. Heywood" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 ____________________________________________________________________ Get free email and a permanent address at http://www.amexmail.com/?A=1
