Quote "Outlook is quite prone to email viruses:" Which is why you MUST have antivirus software installed and MUST keep it updated almost daily. Its not that Outlook is full of bugs and Eudora isn't, its more the tall poppy syndrome in that MS products get targeted by anti MS people.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Pete Siddall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 12:24 PM Subject: Email settings [aus-soaring] Was: FAA license.. > Hi Jay, > > >I am highly computer illiterate but I think I am using Outlook 9.0.0.3821. > Thats what it says in the "about" section under the "help" menu. > > That's the right place to look... > > >It all seems to work quite well from this end. > > Yeah, it probably does, but Microsoft software often doesn't "talk nice" > with all the other things on the internet. And Outlook is quite prone to > email viruses: using something else reduces your vulnerability by a large > amout. I'd suggest you ask someone to set up Eudora for you... > http://www.eudora.com > > > Let me know if I could change any settings to make your life easier. > > Please switch to sending plain-text emails, at least to any mailing list. > You can't use fancy colours, fonts etc - you have to make do with words. > > If your Outlook is like the one I have here, you can change ALL outgoing > mail to text mode in Tools / Options / Send. Select Text for both "Mail > sending format" and "news sending format". > > > -- > * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. > * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message > * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information. > -- * You are subscribed to the aus-soaring mailing list. * To Unsubscribe: send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] * with "unsubscribe aus-soaring" in the body of the message * or with "help" in the body of the message for more information.
