Date   : Tue, 03 Jul 2001 15:19:39 +0100
From   : Joel Rowbottom <joel@...>
Subject: Re: VIKING COLLECTION DISC

At 12:27 03/07/01 +0100, Phil McIntyre wrote:

>I can't understand what his problem is.

As a translation of Gareth's email:

Outlook by default posts rich-text mails, with style information. While 
many mailers are OK with this, several (notably not Outlook) have problems. 
Additionally, many users turn off such "features" as they can be used to 
trigger trojans and viruses - this is why a lot of the email viruses 
prevailent on the Internet originate from Outlook, it's because they're 
easily embedded by default.

It's quite probable that the user posting the email doesn't know they're 
posting rich-text or HTML mails, but a lot of users here are on dialups and 
posting such can double, sometimes even triple the size of an email.

FWIW, my copy of Eudora 5.1 renders it in such a fashion as to make it 
almost unreadable due to the text size difference.

Nobody is disputing the work you're putting in doing the disk collections 
and I for one appreciate it Dave, but please can you try and turn off the 
rich-text method of sending - it detracts from the real message of your 
email if nothing else ;)

(And the quoting argument is "please cut down how much you quote" and 
"place your answer below the quote" - a matter of preference really).

BR


j


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