Joe, in most cases the people generating those attachments are not
     aware of it, and even if they are, MS Exchange and Outlook make it
     almost impossible to generate a "clean" email.  Under certain
     circumstances they can be eliminated if the user is capable of diving
     very deep "under the hood (bonnet)", but depending on the network
     configuration where the person is reading their mail, often iy is
     simply impossible.

     I was recently forced to use ccMail (against my will) when the
     customer I'm on contract with changed their firewall software,
     blocking my POP3 access.  As I'm sure you'll see, ccMail also tacks on
     a little turd that can't be turned off.

     Unfortunately, we are all going to have to put up with this till MS
     and Lotus wise up.


     CIAO - Martin.


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Subject: OT: Attachments on Piclist mail
Author:  pic microcontroller discussion list <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> at
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Date:    5/20/98 9:45 AM


Is it just me being fussy or does anyone else have a problem with useless
attachments coming in on the list? (I am not talking about people who
attach code samples, diagrams or the like)
Many of these attachments seem to originate from people using Microsoft
mailers. If anyone knows a good reason for this stuff being attached to
mail I'd be delighted to know it but otherwise it is just a lot of useless
clutter clogging our hard drives.

Joe