OFF: win.dat (was Re: HW : Name)

[Craig A. Shipley]

Well, up until about two months ago, I sent all of my mail via my UNIX system, using ELM as my mailer. Then, after a corporate decision to send all of us home (YES!) to telecommute, we were also supposed to use a mail package on our PC's to send and receive our mail, 'cuz the new regiem dictated that they will send out org charts and such in various Windows formats (i.e. Word,
Excel). So, along came Z-Mail and Exchange (shhh, I canned Z-Mail and use Exchange exclusively; it does the same thing as Z-mail and it is a free package with Win 95!) and my number of UNIX/ELM mail messages has decreased. I do occasionally use my old ELM system, and when I view the messages that I've sent from the PC on the UNIX box, I see all the "garbage"
that Exchange converts to pretty colors and fonts 'n such. So, for those of you that use an older, less sophisticated e-mail package, this is where most of your problems are coming from, us bums with sophisticated toys! So, if you see my e-mail with my old ASCII signature, that's me on the UNIX platform;
otherwise, it's one of these dern PC's...

'Nuff of this, time to toast some demons! (Final Doom, Plutonia Experiment is 
LETHAL!)



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From:   Jerry Guizar[SMTP:jguizar at EPIX.NET]
Sent:   Wednesday, August 28, 1996 6:12 PM
To:     Multiple recipients of list BOC-L
Subject:        Re: OFF: win.dat (was Re: HW : Name)

In <199608280805.SAA02489 at burwood.pcmicro.com.au>, on 08/28/96 at 04:55
PM,
   Assassin Sonique <sonique at HYME.PCMICRO.COM.AU> said:

>On 28 Aug 96 at 14:10, Peter Sondergeld wrote:

>> Can any technically minded person explain what this is and why this happ
>> There's someone on another list I'm on who has a win.dat attached to EVE
>> post, and they've apologised profusely and frequently, saying that their
>> computing people are unable to stop it happening

>They are pretty much telling the truth there ....there are a few mail
>readers around which do neet things like allow embedded objects (such as
>graphics etc.) included in the file ..... this is NON standard, so to get
>it all to work the data which describes the add ons (such as font
>information etc.) is sent as an attachment which THAT particular mail
>reader detects and decodes automatically.

>The only solution is to use another mail agent .... which may or may not
>be possible depending on their mail server. Does that make sense?

   Tell them to use MIME. I haven't been checking the headers, but I don't
think they're MIME messages - looks more like something from Windows.
These people aren't using something like Word to write their messages are
they?

Jerry

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