Message-Id: <3.0.16.19900918204605.0a4f79d8@tellus.swip.net> X-Sender: mt58779 AT tellus DOT swip DOT net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.0 Demo (16) To: opendos AT delorie DOT com From: Bernie Subject: Re: attachments (was Re: DRDOS FDISK) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 18:24:53 +0200 Reply-To: opendos AT delorie DOT com Patrick wrote: >I'll see if there >is some way to set it to automatically send text only for this particular >address. I suggest you set this as default setting, it will save you time from having to change it for others later since people *will* complain. >I have my mail set up to use a nice looking stationary and the >server that gets this or the server that receives these messages must >convert them to text and use attachments for the HTML portions. Well I think I explained that in another mail for you. >I don't know why some people are having this problem. makes it tough to send >URL links in text mode. Nope, at the end of your message the following URL was: http://im.yahoo.com Now Eudora (and Arachne, and Netscape) would make this clickable as it is. Outlook usually also has this feature. Some people seem to favor to send URLs like this: whatever Thereby making it incredibly bad looking in most mail handlers - and I can't really understand which program it is that demands this weird structure. >I receive messages in both text and HTML formats. That's even worse than getting them as HTML, even more waste. >I suspect that some of the people complaining, have a seerver >somewhere along the line that is converting my messages to MIME format. Also explained in the other mail. You are good at finding out things, but without the basic knowledge of how things work you are not very good at guesssing the reasons. First and foremost assume the problem is at your end, and until you can proove otherwise don't guess on anything else. >I really do not know what I can do on my end. Send mails as mails and not as attachments. >I just write messages in HTML >format and am not going to change my stationary for a few people that have >problems with HTML. If that's how you are going to have it (I do hope you change your mind) I'll take a very wild chance here on presenting a perhaps not so liked idea: "I move for a vote of no confidence ..." No wait a minute that was from Star Wars Ep. I, what was it that I wanted to say? Ah yes... I suggest that anyone who repetedly sends attachments to the list is banned. (If the person is warned first of course that such things isn't tolerated).