In message 199704232053.qaa24...@istar.ca 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.
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Bill Lyons - b...@lyons.demon.co.uk / w.ly...@ieee.org
