Mary -- Thanks for confirming my suspicion. I'm particularly annoyed by this one: > that lovely trick from Microsoft where you get two, two, two > messages in one. In almost every case, the poster had absolutely NO > idea of the trouble that they were causing. A lot of the new mailers > set these fancy bells and whistels as the DEFAULT, may they burn in > ... well, Texas 125 degree heat these days ... Amen. I keep trying to tell people that email's _much_ more difficult to handle now than it was ten years ago, and nobody believes me. > In the meantime, it's set the sizelimit for the long attachments, > and then go poster to poster and explain about the smaller ones and > why they're a pain (I copy what it looked like when it showed up at > MY address -- take out a key symbol so it doesn't just reformat > correctly when it gets back to them!) -- Problem is, of course, with a 600-member list and a dozen newbies a week there's no way to explain all this. I just hope they notice thier own message when it comes back. If it does. > While we're at it, you'll have to tell a lot of new subscribers to > turn off the automatic echoing, too. My favorite is I think > Microsoft Outlook, which is putting the entire replied-to message > in the FRONT, then leaving a blank page to write on, so the writer > doesn't even SEE it unless they happen to scroll up. I have a lot > of new posters come in and have no idea why they are sending all > that extra baggage. What I particularly like is how the repeated stuff makes the archive unreadable . . . Micro$oft scores again, eh? -- Russ __|~_ Russell A. Hunt __|~_)_ __)_|~_ Aquinas Chair St. Thomas University )_ __)_|_)__ __) PHONE: (506) 452-0424 Fredericton, New Brunswick | )____) | FAX: (506) 450-9615 E3B 5G3 CANADA ___|____|____|____/ [log in to unmask] \ / ~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.StThomasU.ca/hunt/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~