TEC

[Jim Pearl]

I'm going to try and explain this as calmly as possible and not flame the 
living #%^% daylights out of a rather shall we say insensitive person.

What you've seen is most likely what has come out of MY mail package - 
usually indicated by the From line. I'm using MSExchange - junk, I don't 
much like it, but it's the only thing that's worked so far with my 
companies system (note I've only spent a few hours with other packages, 
it's screwy). MsExchange tries to "guess", based on the message it's 
responding to, whether or not the other client(s) can understand it's rich 
text language.

For some reason it CONSISTENTLY guesses WRONG for anything from this l*st. 
This despite the fact that I have an address entry telling it NOT to do 
this. EVERY SINGLE TIME I post I must go through a series of steps to turn 
this off for EACH POSTING. understand so far? Occasionally I FORGET! It's 
only been recently through a series of polite exchanges (pardon the pun) 
with a member of this list that I've been able to even figure out what the 
blinking heck is going on. Understand? Note the word polite? I realize that 
you've never made a mistake before so I'll try not to swear or accuse you 
of intentionally sending me this stuff - that okay?

BTW - I've received several messages from this list in Exchange format NOT 
authored by me. If there's someone out there who's figured out how to turn 
this junk off without lobotomizing the software or some way not to send the 
"rich text" attachment I'd appreciate a polite discussion OFF-LINE about 
it. I DON'T wish to tie up bandwidth, make peoples lives harder, or take 
part in a rude discussion - I can find plenty of rude people elsewhere. 
I'll try to make this my first and last posting to the list abut this 
particular topic - my mail works just fine off-line and I know we've all 
got other things we're here to learn about other than MY mail problems. 
Thanks!

P.S. Its real use? I could use color, Bolding, underlining, possibly 
graphics, and any other cutesy thing I wanted - if you could receive it. 
Since I know that 99% of the world doesn't use Exchange (I'm happy about 
this - I like Notes) I don't WANT to send this. Stuff happens though 
and.....
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>From: 	Jim Staff[SMTP:staffj at freenet.msp.mn.us]
Sent: 	Saturday, April 06, 1996 4:49 AM
To: 	diy_efi at coulomb.eng.ohio-state.edu
Subject: 	Re: TEC

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What is this shit, and what real use does it have?
Stop sending this!!!!!!! Turn off that beatnik option it's lame..

                         Jim Staff