On Tue, 24 Oct 2000 16:27:36 -0700, Bill Potts wrote:
>John's attachment was a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation file. If you
>don't have PowerPoint, you won't be able to view it.
I figured as much. Probably with a Word file embedded, or something like
that.
>However, as it was an attachment and not embedded in the message, I'm
>surprised you were unable to at least receive it and puzzled that strings
>from the file were in your copy of the message itself.
I received it fine -- that was just the first few lines.
>Your email software would appear to be CTM Powermail 3.0.5(with which I'm
>not familiar).
Best yet that I've seen, although it doesn't yet have PGP integration.
It handles any number of languages in the same message, which Eudora has
problems with.
>Also, John doesn't seem to have been paying attention to the various
>comments we see here from time to time, regarding the undesirability of
>attachments or of HTML-format messages on a list server.
I wish he would, but at least whenever I see a message with an
attachment, I know that I can safely ignore it without missing anything
important. Okay, so there's actually a reason for the list server not to
strip attachments -- mabye it should bounce the enclosing message
instead. Easier to implement, too.
--
Brad Ackerman N1MNB "...faced with the men and women who bring home
[EMAIL PROTECTED] the pork, voters almost always re-elect them."
http://skaro.pair.com/ -- _The Economist_, 31 Oct 1998
