On Sunday 20 Feb 2005 21:40, - Joy - wrote:
> Thanks, Deri!  This doesn't bother me at all, since I've sort of trained
> myself to avoid attachments to keep virus-free.  Half the time I don't even
> notice them.  Plus, I'm lucky enough to have a high-speed connection, and
> the size of the files is so small that I don't notice my mail taking longer
> to download.  It just always annoys me when I can't figure out why things
> are happening, so I'm glad we solved the mystery.  Just another example of
> Microsoft trying to make life easier and making things more difficult, I
> guess.  If it's really a problem for Mike (or someone else), maybe Meir
> setting his mail client to post in plain text only (or cutting and pasting
> into a text editor like Notepad first to strip out the code) would fix it.
> I don't think it's a big deal, though, and certainly don't want to dissuade
> anyone from posting.
>
> ~Joy~

Meir IS posting "Plain Text". It is Outlook which has a strange concept of
what constitutes "Plain". Your suggestion of using Notepad is very good,
although Outlook may still "recognise" URLs and 'uuencode' them. :-(

Cheers

Deri