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> I do not understand any of the technicalities of this IT stuff
***** It's a pity, but one has to, a little bit.
but
> Jackie's own message appears on my email reader (Turnpike) only as an
> attachment. It is identified as an html attachment but that is all.
>
Ian Clark mentions "plain text (ie without HTML or fancy MS
Word-type formatting)". Jackie may be using MS Outlook Express. In
Outlook Express, if you don't switch the formatting to "plain text"
I think you automatically get HTML -- many users don't realise what
this means. My mail program (Pegasus) passes HTML-type messages to a
web-browser (e.g. Internet Explorer), and leaves that to unscramble
them. It looks as though Frank's browser does that by treating
the whole message as an attachment, leaving some other program to
unscramble it. I do wish people would turn HTML (and any other fancy
formatting) OFF.
Sorry if that sounds grumpy -- I don't mean to be.
Roger Fern.
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Roger Fern, Newcastle upon Tyne.
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