Hi Shmuel
One of my pet peeves is that I have two unsatisfactory choices regarding the
forum:
a) If I subscribe to the general postings, the number of posts per day is
enormous.
b) If I subscribe to the digest (which I used to), I get one single posting
a day,
I agree with you on these - it would be better to get at most 10 to 15
postings at once, which would mean more emails, but these would be more
manageable, and one wouldn't end up adding useless comments because one
is too much behind - but your other problem is caused by your email
program, Outlook, not the list server:
but each individual post is a separate attachment, which I have to
open individually to read. I've been a member of the digests of other forums
where the digest is a single file, but with all the postings simply
appearing one after another. I wonder if that change can be made. I for one
would appreciate it greatly.
It seems that the inability to view attachments inline became a bug,
i.e. in Microsoftese a "feature", of Outlook a few years ago, when MS
drew its typically illogical conclusions from Outlook's vulnerability to
malware attachments. Instead of redesigning the program (and OE) to not
automatically execute any and all attachments that get thrown at it as
before, MS simply blocked a huge list of attachments:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HP030850041033.aspx
Worse still, MS came up with a typically monopolistic workaround for RTF
in which it allowed RTF attachments to be displayed inline, but this
produces junk in most other email programs (even OE!) because it
actually is just pretend-RTF wrapped inside proprietary clumsy
winmail.dat packages. This is especially ironic because RTF used to be
and real RTF still is a truly universally compatible format that one can
open in any word processor.
Reading the following kind of nonsense makes one think that either MS
executives live in a North Korean kind of isolation from reality or
think that their customers are so stupid or brainwashed that they don't
know about or won't consider switching to a modern, safe email program
like Thunderbird or Opera or many others:
http://office.microsoft.com/en-us/assistance/HA011894211033.aspx
Judging by these old and cold or no replies people got from MVPs, it may
be that Outlook was always broken and could never display attached emails:
http://www.pcreview.co.uk/forums/thread-793541.php
http://groups.google.fi/group/microsoft.public.outlook/browse_thread/thread/a24680ffe03496ee/
http://groups.google.fi/group/microsoft.public.outlook.interop/browse_thread/thread/2df4196b1316d7a7/
http://groups.google.fi/group/microsoft.public.outlook.general/browse_thread/thread/18ada6cd8ada6af2/
http://groups.google.fi/group/microsoft.public.outlook.general/browse_thread/thread/2571faca502479bc/
Try Thunderbird www.mozilla.com or www.opera.com for a few days, and i'm
sure you'll never want to go back to Outlook. In addition to all its
other great features, Thunderbird shows digest emails both as
attachments and inside the email.
More links to help you understand Outlook and its problems better:
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=277793
http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=307594
In 2004, all modern email programs had a menu item and didn't require
you to edit the registry to show email as plain text!
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