As you are all aware, sending attachments causes problems for many of our
listmembers. Not only are they unable to read the message containing the
attachment but also miss out on the rest of the messages from the list.
I have been sending an 'alert' to many of our listmembers who send
attachments...most of them reply that they will find out how to avoid
doing that. Others never reply or acknowledge receiving my message.
Many other lists give their members one notice and then delete the
offender the next time they send an attachment. I don't really want to
do that but it certainly doesn't seem fair that some folks miss a whole
day's messages because one person breaks the rules. What do you think?
How can we prevent this? I'm open to suggestions.... Barb
On Tue, 21 Jul 1998, Camilla H.Flintermann wrote:
> Friends-- by having the campus techies DELETE massages from the Sampers, P.
> Kidd, and Gev.Irani I have again been able to read my email,which was
> unavailable since Saturday.
>
> Murray Charters was right when he said the problem was with ATTACHMENTS on
> their" MS Outlook 8.5" mail programs--apprently the system sends ths
> *signature etc* as an attacjhment, and the sender isn't even aware of this!
> But those who,like me, use Eudora can't open them, and then can't get past
> them to read anything following!
>
> Murray wrote in part:
>
> Hi All,
>
> I think the problem with attachments being inadvertently sent to the
> List stems from MS Internet Mail or MS Exchange and it's inherent RTF
> (Rich Text Format) which it uses to send formatting to others who
> have the same program. Please see that your e-mail is text only and
> does not have the RTF box checked.
>
> Netscape offers a service called Inbox Direct that sends messages in
> HTML code. Some people may unknowingly use this feature to submit
> messages that are best read with a web browser. Again, please try to
> send only plain text ASCII files.
>
> Still others do not bother to configure their e-mail to a limit of 76
> characters per line. Thus the messages that are one long line.
>
> If senders are concerned with recipients being able to easily read
> the contents of their messages then please send plain text, word
> wrapped to 76 characters per line.
>
> Thanks all and all the best......Murray
> ***********
> This is a serioous inconvenience, especially on weekends when help is not
> available--unfiortunately Abi's idea of deleting the messages myself won;t
> work, as I can't even OPEN them!
>
> I plan to ask Barb Patterson if she can add something re: this to the
> welcome message for new members---a warning about a problem they may not be
> aware of.
>
> Please be careful, of these *inadvertant* attachments, as well as the ones
> we are asked NOT to add deliberately!
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> Camilla Flintermann, CG for Peter 80/9
> Oxford, OH
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