Tim Jackson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) on Tue, 25 Jan 2000 19:25:12 +0000 (GMT):
> Hi Michael, on Tue, 25 Jan 00 at 17:36:06 you wrote...
>
> >As for getting a PC person to change his Options, I doubt they'll know how
> >or want to risk it.
>
> Most people I e-mail are quite willing to, actually. What you have to
> remember is that there are a vast quantity of thick internet newbies
> around (your average Joe HomePC User) and they haven't got a clue.
You mean like AOL users. ;-)
The problem is that PC users have become so pampered with pre-configured CDs,
that they never have to get their hands dirty setting up their own TCP/IP
settings, or anything, like us Amiga users have to. So when you suggest they
alter their settings, they haven't got a clue, and often refuse on the basis
that they "might break it." <sigh> Pathetic creatures. And they have the nerve
to look down on us Amiga users as technologically backward halfwits. How dare
they! :-)
> A number of distributions of Outlook Extrashite come configured with HTML
> *on* as default, so most people are receptive if you tell them how to do
> it (which is why I keep a text file with the instructions for turning HTML
> off handy).
I often get messages from AOL users, whose messages have been forwarded several
times before it gets to me, and are so clogged up with massive headers showing
each route of each forwarding, that the message is several times larger than the
actual message itself. And despite the fact that I have "significant headers
only" selected, the whole bloody thing is displayed in Microdot! Example -
Message received: 19K, My follow up after tidying up: 3011 bytes. Nuff said?
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Cheers
Wayne
