Fri, 28 Aug 1998 00:53:32 -0400
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Fellow List Owners:
One of my subscribers, who uses Microsoft Outlook 97 (part of the
Microsoft Office 97 software suite) as his e-mail program, cannot figure
out how consistently to stop sending large mime-encoded binary file
attachments in list messages. He says he has de-selected HTML or rich (?)
text in favor of plain ASCII text, but Outlook keeps sending these binary
file attachments that appear as gobbledygook to many subscribers' e-mail
programs.
Strangely enough, he says he is *sometimes* able to avoid these binary
file attachments if he first saves his messages as a plain ASCII text
files. But this does not *always* work. So what is needed here is a
consistent way to solve this problem.
Notes:
1. The program involved is Outlook, *not* Outlook Express (the e-mail
program bundled with Microsoft Internet Explorer 4.x).
2. He is using Microsoft Windows 95, not Windows 98.
3. This subscriber uses CompuServe as his Internet service provider.
(His e-mail address is in the CSI.COM domain.) I don't know whether
CompuServe's Information Manager interface plays a role here but thought
it was worth mentioning.
Does anyone know how to solve this problem? Any suggestions will be
very much appreciated.
(BTW, please forgive the cross-posting.)
Sincerely,
Ken Reigner
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Ken Reigner [log in to unmask]
Member, Board of Directors List Owner, WIW-L and WIW-JOBS
Chairman, Technology Committee [log in to unmask]
Washington Independent Writers [log in to unmask]
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