In message <[email protected]> "Kevin Harris" writes:
> I have noticed more and more of the people who subscribe to this list > server are using attachments to send their e-mail. Usually the attachment > is named without a three letter extension. For those of us using WIN95 and > IE 3.0x these documents cannot be opened by clicking on them unless there > is an extension (Thank you Bill Gates). This forces us to save and rename > the document to view it. If people who use the attachment form of sending > e-mail could please include some form of commonly used extension for your > attachment (such as *.txt *.doc) it would be very helpful. Agreed, but may I humbly suggest it would be much better to send only "straight" ASCII text and save all the bother at the other end. This is, after all, a text discussion list, and graphics are simply a pain, and so is a graphical representation of character-based text. I use a simple, fast, pure ASCII editor (PCWrite) to email and to post to newsgroups. If you do use a wordprocessor, they can all export text in ASCII (DOS) form, stripping off all confusing formatting symbols. After all, the recipient may not have the same wordprocessor even if he/she can identify it. Just my $0.02! Regards to all, Bill. -- Bill Lyons - [email protected] / [email protected]
