Wolfgang obviously didn't have his regular ten cups of coffee this
     morning, but he is right that MS Exchange and Outlook produce a bunch
     of garbage that pure email readers see as attachments or trash text in
     the message. Unfortunately, only some of it can be turned off from the
     client. To get it all turned off requires the Exchange or Outlook
     server settings to be correctly configured, easy if you are running it
     at home, nearly impossible if you are trying to convince your office
     network admin to do it for you. Only people using 'pure' email
     packages (non LAN) such as Eudora or Agent or Pine, etc. will see this
     trash

     Incidentally, other LAN mail programs do similar stuff. I am forced to
     use cc:Mail at work, which as you may notice, adds an attachment turd
     too.

     The problem with all these messy mail apps is that the user doesn't
     realize he or she is annoying everyone else until someone is polite
     (or annoyed - Wolfgang) enough to let you know what is happening. On
     top of this, in some cases it is impossible to do anything about it
     (cc:Mail) or the instructions are buried somewhere the average user
     could never find (Exchange and Outlook).


     CIAO - Martin.


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Subject: MS bullshit inside piclist emails?
Author:  pic microcontroller discussion list <PICLIST@MITVMA.MIT.EDU> at
Internet
Date:    6/15/98 11:38 PM


Today I received this message from Wolfgang Kynast (wkysag@gmx.de):

-- large snip --

>Hi Bo,
>once again: PLEASE SWITCH THIS MS-BULLSHIT OFF!!!!!!!
>You can do that by diabling 'Microsoft Exchange Rich Text Format'
>in the adressbook.
>Thanks,
>Wolfgang

Even though I really don't know what is going on I have now switched off the
checkbox he mentions above in my address book. I hope this solves whatever
problem you were experiencing with my messages. I am using the Microsoft
Exchange ver. 4 mail client and I don't ever recall having any problems with my
outgoing mail. Must be some peculiarity with this list server....

Bo