BlankCorresponding with my brother recently via Outlook Express he advises
that my last three messages sent over a period of 14/21 days have all been
accompanied by an attachment called ATT 00021 which he has been unable to
open.
I did not consciously send him these attachments with my emails and the
copies in my ‘sent’ box show no such items.
Is anyone able to through any light on what these attachments are?
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"Tim Sutor" <sutor@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
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> BlankCorresponding with my brother recently via Outlook Express he advises
> that my last three messages sent over a period of 14/21 days have all been
> accompanied by an attachment called ATT 00021 which he has been unable to
> open.
> I did not consciously send him these attachments with my emails and the
> copies in my 'sent' box show no such items.
> Is anyone able to through any light on what these attachments are?
>
"Tim Sutor" <sutor@optusnet.com.au> wrote in message
news:487b0885$0$30461$afc38c87@news.optusnet.com.a u...
> BlankCorresponding with my brother recently via Outlook Express he advises
> that my last three messages sent over a period of 14/21 days have all been
> accompanied by an attachment called ATT 00021 which he has been unable to
> open.
> I did not consciously send him these attachments with my emails and the copies
> in my ‘sent’ box show no such items.
> Is anyone able to through any light on what these attachments are?
>
That can happen if you have Outlook Express configured to send messages in HTML
format and your brother has OE configured to read messages in plain text.
In OE, click on the Tools menu and select Options from the menu. On your
computer click on the Send tab. Note whether HTML is checked under Mail Sending
Format. Have your brother open the Options dialog and click on the Read tab. He
probably has the box next to "Read all messages in plain text" checked.
That said, it's no big deal that the attachment is there. If your brother wants
to view your messages in HTML, tell him to hit the Alt + Shift + H keys at the
same time.
> BlankCorresponding with my brother recently via Outlook Express he advises
> that my last three messages sent over a period of 14/21 days have all been
> accompanied by an attachment called ATT 00021 which he has been unable to
> open.
> I did not consciously send him these attachments with my emails and the
> copies in my ‘sent’ box show no such items.
> Is anyone able to through any light on what these attachments are?
Read replies to your MULTIposted copy of your message in the other
groups to which you posted.
A point not made is that N multiposted copies will consume N times the
disk space for each of the separate copies of the same post.
Crossposted messages have just *one* copy on the server with links in
the newsgroups back to the same single copy. Multiposting wastes disk
space on the server. Yes, your post may be small but remember that you
consume N times the space on one server and then do so again on all the
newsgroups servers worldwide. You waste more bandwidth getting N copies
of your multiposted message distributed to all the newsgroups servers
worldwide. Cross-posting has just one copy of the message on an NNTP
server, and only one copy gets propagated to other NNTP servers.
To those visiting the newsgroups, crossposting helps them see ALL the
replies from those in the other RELATED newsgroup to which you linked
your post. That way, they don't waste their time duplicating similar
replies.
Don't cross-post to more groups than needed if at all. Many consider
cross-posting to more than 4 groups as rude and may filter out your
post. The more groups you add, the less likely that they are related,
the less accurate or focused are the targeted groups, or some of the
included groups may already encompassed by another included but more
general group. If the are subgroups under a topic, choose whether you
will be specific or general in the targeted groups to which you post.
Don't go shotgunning your post across multiple groups trying to capture
as large an audience as possible as you will offend netizens with your
poor aim.
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