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Hi Bonnie, you wrote.............. > Murray, > I believe you should tell Ken that YOU are sorry. > Ken's post may have been considered "SPAM"... But it was not sent out as an > attachment. I can say that because I did not receive it as an attachment. YOU > may have received it as an attachment due to the length. I agree that all the > headers & other fwd "crap" was unnecessary. However, I believe Ken had god > intentions. > Bonnie, both Ken & I had good intentions. I may have over reacted a little tho'. Sorry Ken. Ken is using AOL 4.0 for Windows 95 and I am using Pegasus Mail Version 2.5 My e-mailer (Pegasus) is a freeware program and runs happily on any platform (386, 486, Pentium, etc.) and runs fine in Windows 3.1 as well. I use Pegasus because this is the e-mail program I load on the free computers donated to our support group. You say that in your computer it came out normal. Was it all one plain text document? Or plain text with an attached plain text mail message? (as it did - 3parts - on my Pegasus) I know my e-mailer and computer are antiques in the computer world, but Ken's message WAS multi-part and 12k with all the headers. He just was thinking "Good Luck". I, on the other hand, was thinking "I don't care for messages that demand you forward them to others and specify a time limit and state that you will benefit (Good Luck) from doing so and thus infer that you will get the opposite if you don't forward them. This may make some of our members feel a guilt trip if they don't comply, and yet another guilt trip if they spam their friends and family". (If all 1800 members in 36 countries sent this to 10 people and they sent it to 10 etc. we would all soon have multiple copies jamming our systems ) This is not the first time someone sent this particular message to this list by the way. I was also thinking "It's time somebody reminded ALL the list members not to send anything but 1 part ASCII plain text" and giving my friend Ken a public cuff did just that. (Ken's a big guy and a good friend and can handle this) I wouldn't cuff just anybody! I guess it's just a slow mail day 'n I was over reacting?? All the best to you Bonnie and my apologies to all the "Hornets" I stirred up..................................... Murray [log in to unmask]