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Re: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in ATT attachments. Its

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Tue Jul 9 19:09:20 2002

Date: Tue, 9 Jul 2002 12:57:55 -1000 (HST)
From: Scott Weeks <surfer@mauislanwanman.com>
To: John Palmer <nanog@adns.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <024c01c2279b$25f71880$8201a8c0@nipsco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu




On Tue, 9 Jul 2002, John Palmer wrote:

:
: There is nothing wrong with MS Outlook express. You need to stem
: your hostility towards Microsoft and recognize that they are the dominant
: desktop (something like 90%) and you need to get used to it and stop
: fighting.


Uh, no.  I *don't* need to get used to it and there *are* things wrong
with it...

scott





:
: ----- Original Message -----
: From: "Nipper, Arnold" <arnold@nipper.de>
: To: "John Palmer" <nanog@adns.net>
: Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 5:36 PM
: Subject: Re: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in ATT attachments. Its annoying and no one can see your message
:
:
: > John,
: >
: > use a real MUA and you will have no problem. Something like mutt, you know
: > ...
: >
: > Arnold - also mostly using Outlook Express -
: >
: > ----- Original Message -----
: > From: "John Palmer" <nanog@adns.net>
: > To: <nanog@merit.edu>
: > Sent: Wednesday, July 10, 2002 12:29 AM
: > Subject: Stop it with putting your e-mail body in ATT attachments. Its
: > annoying and no one can see your message
: >
: >
: > >
: > > I know this is off the current subject., but some of you are sending
: > > these e-mail's to the list that appear as attachments and not text.
: > >
: > > This is even more annoying than HTML Mail.
: > >
: > > The message appears with an empty body and attachments that have
: > > names that start with ATT....
: > >
: > > This is annoying. Many people wont read your messages because
: > > opening attachments is a security risk.  If you want your postings
: > > read, please use plain text e-mail and not these stupid ATT
: > > attachments.
: > >
: > > (flame off)
: > >
: > >
: > > ----- Original Message -----
: > > From: "Joseph T. Klein" <jtk@titania.net>
: > > Cc: <nanog@trapdoor.merit.edu>
: > > Sent: Tuesday, July 09, 2002 5:21 PM
: > > Subject: Billing Notice
: > >
: > >
: > >
: >
: >
:
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