Re: WINMAIL.DAT

From: Jon Steiger (stei0302@cs.fredonia.edu)
Date: Fri Dec 19 1997 - 23:37:28 EST


At 07:35 PM 12/17/97 EST, N2mopars wrote:
>In a message dated 97-12-17 08:26:20 EST, you write:
>
><< Jon, what is this winmail.dat garbage I am getting for my digests?
> I can't read them, give me back my text files, please!
> >>
> I second that motion!!!
>
>Brad
>

   That's some extra formatting garbage that some e-mail clients
automatically attach to messages.
    If you have such a client, you should go into the options and turn
these off!! This is one of the reasons why... They come through as garbage
text in the digests. They also come through as garbage text in many e-mail
clients and programs. At the very best, they suck bandwidth. Unfortunately,
there's not really anything I can do to keep these things out of the digests;
its up to each person to make sure they're not sending them...

                                              -Jon-

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