On Thursday, October 23, 2003, 6:45:15 PM, Thomas wrote in message: mid:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TF> Just a guess - yes. I year or so ago, I sent my mother a message with TF> two attached pics to her AOL account. She received one zip-file as TF> attachment (but it carried the .zip extension). While she found out TF> how to use WinZip, she considered it incovenient to have to unzip TF> attachments and therefore asked me to send any messages with TF> attachments to her other account - which she can check with TB. So I TF> don't know whether this problem persists at AOL, but clearly ISPs have TF> funny ideas sometimes.
TF> So the concerned recipient's ISP *could have* zipped the file but TF> fogotten to change the extension, weird as it sounds. Hi Thomas, Thanks for this - yes, I know that AOL do zip attachments if they are over a certain size as this happens regularly with folks I know on the genealogy lists. I've not come across it with other ISP's though and never where the file extension isn't changed... it's very odd. -- Cheers, Anne Flying high with The Bat! v2.00.6 on Windows 98 4.10 Build 2222 Visit The Bat! Users' Unofficial Help Forum http://the-bat-forums.donzeigler.com ________________________________________________ Current version is 2.01.3 | "Using TBUDL" information: http://www.silverstones.com/thebat/TBUDLInfo.html
