Hello Technology! On Friday, September 13, 2002 at 12:23:19 AM you wrote:
> Agreed, but would it not have the same effect when the message is > being reconstructed in Eudora, Outlook, Outlook Express, Pegasus, > Netscape Maill, or SOME other program? Not necessarily; that is the fun part about stochastics. Murphy's Law is nothing else but telling us *what* randomness exactly means - it always strikes when you won't need it. > I have never seen one of these programs corrupt an attachment. If > memory was the problem, wouldn't I see some evidence of it in other > programs? Wouldn't I see BSODs on a regular basis? A friend of mine suggested the same as Adam for various problems on my machine. For one, I can't start Windows 95 without using the boot menu to choose "start up with protocol". Otherwise I will invariably get a "Schutzverletzung". I am quite sure that my RAM is perfectly in order - but just because I had that specific problem once with other memory banks installed. Nonetheless, it could well be that BSOD are *not* a Windows problem but a hardware failure (which is what MS says for years). > But once an image fails, it always fails. If an image is good, it's > always good. I got me sent the "Test" by Eddy (actually someone else sent it to me) and I saw the blank JPEG in the message. I then D&D'ed onto my Desktop and tried to open it with PhotoPaint, what initially failed. Since PP is sometimes a bit fickle about resources and RAM I can't pin down the initial failure to the JPEG. when I first opened PP and from within chose the image, everything worked fine. It was also shown in IrfanView. > Trust me -- I *really* would love to find out that it's not TB because > I really like this program. I've used it for 18+ months and, even with > the problem I see, am not seriously considering any other program. > There simply is no better or more configurable e-mail program than TB. Here's one thing that bothers me with this discussion: For years no one seemed to have this problem even once, but all of a sudden lots of users come up and tell us they experience this file corruption. There are various possibilities why this happens, the only one I can rule out at the moment is trolling, as this list is quite closed compared to Usenet. There must be a common denominator for this problem, perhaps we should start again and do what we learned in University: Analyze (from Greek for taking apart) the problem step by step. 1. Where do you all store your attachments, in separate directory or within the message? 2. What other tasks are running (TSRs, virus scanners, firewalls, IMs ...)? 3. What kind of connection do you have? 4. Are there any file formats that are *not* affected? 5. Anybody else knowing a good question? -- Dierk Haasis http://www.Write4U.de http://Interest.Write4U.de/pongo PGP keys available: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Subject=SendMyPGPkeys The Bat 1.61 on Windows 95 4.0 1212 C Alone: In bad company. (Ambrose Bierce) ________________________________________________ Current version is 1.61 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
