Re: FLASH: E-mail attachments

[John Croteau]

Hi Jerry,


>   OK folks, someone help me out here. I've posted to this list three

> times since I've joined. Twice now I've gotten a "warning" about

> sending attachments to the list. To the best of my knowledge these

> aren't coming from me, but can someone verify that?

Yes, your latest message has less than 900 bytes of plain text content

but has an additional 2.5K of rich text encoding. This is especially bad

for those on the Digest version of the List which see the attachments as

gibberrish in text form instead appearing as a link:

>   Part 1.2       Type: application/ms-tnef  Encoding: base64


>   I've been on other mailing lists for over three years now and I've

> never ran into this problem. Are you getting attachments from me,

> and if so, what are they? Thanks!

Yes, Winmail.dat and APPLICATION/MS-TNEF (Microsoft Transport Neutral

Encapsulation Format) message parts are encoded in a proprietary format

only Microsoft Mail and Microsoft Exchange can read. The Rich Text

Format these send should normally be turned off when posting to a

mailing list.


See:

http://www.mcli.dist.maricopa.edu/director/direct-l/winmail.html

http://www.annoyances.org/win95/win95ann5.html#13

http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q136/2/04.asp


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