David,
All this makes sense about the "de-commoditizing," etc., and is typical MS.
I did notice--in one other group to which I post--that a message comes back:
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I assume that it refers to the attachments, as I see it frequently on others' posts as well as mine.
OK--I gotta knock off now...120+ pages of low brass music to edit tomorrow...
Thanx again to all for the help--it's partially fixed, I hope, and the remaining attachment is only 198 bytes.
From: David W. Fenton
Sent: Wed 11-Oct-06 23:30
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [Finale] Getting rid of the attachments
On 11 Oct 2006 at 23:19, Williams, Jim wrote: > Yes, David, that's it--replies only. > A question arises, though: why are these attachments viewed by some > people as (ob)noxious? I could see an issue, perhaps, if people are on > dialup or billed by the byte, but the attachments are actually quite > small, yes?? So why is there an objection? I understand that it is not > the best programming, but I thought one person was going to... Another > question, as long as I have the experts' ears: Why doesn't this happen > when I reply to messages on other lists, when I am using exactly the > same setup for email? It's not the standard Internet email format, so not all email clients make an effort to handle it well. Some do, some don't, but there's no requirement for an Internet email client to do so, as it's not the standards-compliant Internet email format. This has been a constant problem with Microsoft's email clients -- MS wants to "de-commoditize standards," which means, in practice, polluting the standards to give their own proprietary software an advantage. If everybody used Outlook, there wouldn't be a problem. So, that's the way MS formats their email, as though everyone uses their product. The result is that those in the corporate world see no issues, while the rest of the world sees problems all the time. The simplest solution is to get a separate email account, or to ask if you can have POP3 access to your email account and use any email client you choose. You could then use OWA for the Exchange-specific features not supported by a POP3 email client (such as setting your out-of-office message, though I have to admit I have never thought such messages were anything but annoying and completely useless). -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
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