email bug corrupts scripts in OE [was: Re: FLASH: JavaScript Plug-in Detection]

[Lady Wistfulee]

Noel Nolst Trenite <

Noel [dot] Treniteiname [dot] com

> wrote:

Ok, lets sue Microsoft then :-)


I agree! To those of you who use Outlook Express (like I do, until I find another free/low-cost email program that I can use my HTML stationery with), I discovered a bug that corrupts scripts that are written out in an email.  As a newbie, I didn't realize it until I got "good enough" to read a script & know what I was looking at.  When an email contains a double slash " // " with anything written after it, (like anything commented out in a script!) the word "file" with a colon " : " is added.   Therefore, " // " becomes " file:// ". 

M$ tech support called me on Sunday & tried to tell me it was an "enhancement", until I mentioned the phrases: "corrupted email" & "my email being tampered with".  Then she told me I could talk to a developer for $95!  (I declined)  The next day (today) I received an email from Joey Wray: LC Quality Assurance Lead, MCSE, at M$, who tells me it is "bugged", the developers are aware of it, & will be fixed in the future build of OE. HAH!

When I think of all the scripts I was looking at these past few months, trying to learn...& they are all corrupted!! GRRRR!


much alohas from Oahu,

Céline Kapiolani

a.k.a. Lady Wistfulee

--Mistakes are their own instructors.

                                         --Horace



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