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From: Bernie <bernie AT mbox302 DOT swipnet DOT se>
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Date: Wed, 25 Oct 2000 18:06:32 +0200
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Patrick Moron wrote:
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Ok I will give my comments two times, first assuming you actually know
something and then assuming you know as much as you show:

1. A web browser and a mail program are two diffrent programs.
2. There are options for both in Windows.
3. Noone asked you to change browser or OS.
4. You shouldn't complain about something that's wrong when there's nothing
that is wrong.

Now, lets take it in a way that you might understand:

This is a computer (pointing at computer), it has an OS. There are quite a
few diffrent types of OS that you can run. One is Windows 95 (this is the
easy explanation - makes people less afraid <g>) another is Linux but there
are more. Almost all OS have the ability to connect to the InterNet, which
is a world wide network of computers. On the InterNet you can use a web
browser to visit company or peoples homepages, for instance you can often
check out all the latest about your favorite team on their official homepage.
There are for almost all OS several diffrent browsers, Netscape and
InterNet Explorer are the biggest but there are also others. To get in
contact with people over the InterNet you can use e-mail, there are also
several programs to do this in almost all OS. Outlook, Netscape, Eudora and
Pegasus are some but more exist.
Some of the mail programs will send the files in HTML format and this is
considered rude since they are larger and many people are still using slow
connections that cost for the time they are used. Some people also have
trouble viewing these mails. Therefor all programs can turn this "feature"
off.
For instance in Outlook Express do like this:
Choose Tools|Options...|Send
Under "Mail sending format" choose "Plain text"

As you can see I started up Outlook Express on university just to be able
to see where the setting was. This took me less than 1 minute (were most of
the time was waiting for Outlook to start) so I assume you that you haven't
even bothered to look for it.