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> >From: Randal Whittle[SMTP:rwhittle@usa.net] > >Sent: Tuesday, April 07, 1998 1:29 AM > >To: Paul Khoury > >Cc: LPLarsen; ThinkPad List > >Subject: Re: Fw: Classifieds2000 found 5 computers > > > >At 11:11 PM 4/6/98 , Paul Khoury wrote: > >>The next time you send attachments, can you please make them readable? > >>I cannot read them, and they appear as AT0000x.ATT (x being 1 and up). > > > > Actually Paul, his "attachment" was really just an in-line HTML mail. > >Some mail readers (notably Netscape's & Eudora 4.0) read this just fine, > >but other mailers (I note that you are using PMMail for OS/2), not knowing > >how to show the mailing, just handle it as an attachment. Randal, Netscape & Eudora & posting HTML crap in mailing lists and newsgroups is definitely not the common denominator. In the past, using the common denominator used to be a standard adhered to by about everybody on the Internet. Adherance to netiquette appears to become unpopular these days. > > For those of us using a more capable mailer (Grin!), it came through > >perfectly fine and looked pretty darn good to boot--basically it was a web > >page in my E-Mail. Go post URLs instead. Your so-called more capable mailer will interpret the URL fine so you can go and click on it. Folks with "less capable mailers" can copy & paste the URL to their favourite browser. And hey, you really don't need to send the high volume traffic to everybody. There are people out there who pay their ISP per volume. The choice what they suck down their lines is up to them, not up to you.