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Re: [pf] Kaleopono, your winmail.dat file is on steroids! < < < Date > > > | < < < Thread > > >

Re: [pf] Kaleopono, your winmail.dat file is on steroids!

by David MacClement

05 May 2000 01:37 UTC

At 13:56 4/5/2000 -0700, Gary Berlind <.-.-@atdial.net> wrote:
>Gee, Kaleopono, not only do your emails get to me with a somewhat annoying
>winmail.dat attachment, but now the attachment is up to 390K in length and
>takes about a half minute to download.
>
>Anything you can do to rid the world (and me) of this problem?
>
>Gary Berlind
>Berkeley, CA
>

**  I agree with the complaint. I've just looked in my Attach(ments) folder
(where I keep my Eudora), and find I have _9_winmail.dat_s ; the _375_kB_
winmail8.dat starting: 

[in Wordpad: ]
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
-x>"8                                       IPM.Microsoft Mail.Note 
1  
                       
 !           H  "             #       &       )       6       p     %
UNEP handbook on environment & trade      q            %M{! ԱH 
            SMTP:SSA@ILHAWAII.NET           @    f*    
              M\ rJ
€                  c  _  L  LZFu =  
 rcpg125r2 `c1 0   `n  033  fe O   c  ch
s???et prq2  *
no P 0 Ѕ 6 0504 !   4} m 
P    b  P      29 O _ g    V d pa    238 ???  m
CE T 1  @ 9! yr T  1
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -


[in Microsoft Word Viewer 97: ]
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
x>"8                                     IPM.Microsoft Mail.Note 1  
              
        
 !           H  "   
       
 #       &     
 )       6     - p     %   UNEP handbook on environment & trade      q
     
 %M{! ԱH       
         SMTP:SSA@ILHAWAII.NET   
  
     @  
  f*   
             
M\ r"J
€  
 -
             c  _  L  LZFu =  
 rcpg125r2
 `c1 0 
`n'
  033  fe 'O   c  ch
s???et prq2  '*
no P 0 Ѕ 6  0504 !   4}m  P   
b  P     29 O _ g    V d pa    238 ??? m CE-T 1- @-9! yr-T  
1

- - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - -

**  and my copy of Microsoft Word asks what it's to be converted from. It
can't recognise it.


**  Kaleopono, don't you think you should _ask_, before sending such a
_huge_ amount of stuff to everyone on the list?

**  My answer, in the past, has been to put it on my website and give only
its address (URL) with my short description, in my note to the list.

**  Then you are leaving it to the recipient to decide whether they want to
look at it in detail.

David.
(David MacClement) davd@ihug.co.nz 
www.geocities.com/Athens/Delphi/3142/Pg1-AD11.html
 or better: http://www.emucities.com.au/member/davd/
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