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 -- 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]