Re: Unreadable Messages
Ben Parker (bparker@INTERACCESS.COM)
Sat, 20 Jan 1996 22:10:38 -0600
On Sat, 20 Jan 1996, Michael F. Bowman wrote:
> Recently, a number of postings to Scouts-L have included something like
> the following:
> Parts/attachments:
> 1 Shown 23 lines Text
> 2 2.6 KB Application/MS-TNEF
>
> When I try to view the attachment it is not readable. If you are using
> MS-TNEF, whatever that is, you may want to check to see what you can do
> to put your answer in ASCII Text so that it is more universally readable,
This is a good point! Unfortunately it is because of our good? friends
at Microsoft, not the individual users. Here is what you can do about
it: (interested readers will recognize the author from another context...)
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 1995 09:56:00 EST
From: Nathan Brindle <NATHAN@LSOFT.COM>
Reply to: LISTSERV list owners' forum <LSTOWN-L@SEARN.SUNET.SE>
Subject: Re: Problem with attached file.
On Mon, 11 Dec 1995 03:20:38 EST Roger Fajman said:
>
>The MS-TNEF files are created by Microsoft Exchange, the transfer
>agent program for Microsoft Mail...
Open your mail address book [for Microsoft Mail],
highlight the entry for this list [Scouts-L, Arrow-L, etc],
click on the Properties button,
make sure the "rich text" box is NOT checked.
Nathan
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