I had the same problem, but cured it by deselecting the "Always send messages
in Microsoft Exchange rich text format."

-----Original Message-----
From:   Bob Fehrenbach [SMTP:bfehrenb@EXECPC.COM]
Sent:   Wednesday, January 21, 1998 10:02 AM
To:     PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU
Subject:        Junk in Postings  (OT) ... well sort of OT

Occasionally posts to this list contain a lot of extra baggage
such as:

------ =_NextPart_000_01BD25C5.8BC30200
Content-Type: application/ms-tnef
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

eJ8+IgEXAQaQCAAEAAAAAAABAAEAAQeQBgAIAAAA5AQAAAAAAADoAAEIgAcAGAAAAElQTS5NaWNy
b3NvZnQgTWFpbC5Ob3RlADEIAQ2ABAACAAAAAgACAAEEkAYA4AIAAAIAAAANAAAAAwAAMAMAAAAL
AA8OAAAAAAIB/w8BAAAAWAAAAAAAAACBKx+kvqMQGZ1uAN0BD1QCAAAAAHBpYyBtaWNyb2NvbnRy
b2xsZXIgZGlzY3V .... and so on for dozens of lines.

Evidently the above contains another copy of the message in mime(?)
format.


On a number of occasions I have sent the poster a private note, including
a copy of their post as it came through.  It all cases, I received
pleasant responses indicating surprise that their messages had so much
garbage included.  Most have been able to make the necessary changes
but some have no idea what is causing the problem.  The common
denominator seems to be Microsoft mailers.  I have no experience with
these.  If anyone knows where the magic switches are, you would be doing
us all a favor if you could provide some advice.  It would cut down
significantly on the size of the mail packets.


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Bob Fehrenbach    Wauwatosa, WI     bfehrenb@execpc.com