Eric makes a good point. I continue to get quite a few responses and this seems to be a fairly widespread problem. If you are not affected by the problem and have not yet started deleting these notes based on the subject line, you might want to do so. I'll try to encapsulate what I know about the problem so far. It was enough to solve the problem for me, and hopefully will allow us to put the subject to rest. Responses that I've received fall into 3 categories: 1. people whose recieved notes have the unwanted attachment. 2. people who are getting complaints from others about the attachments on their notes. 3.people who don't have any attachments and say there's no problem for them. I've noticed that some Pegasus users fall into category 1 and some Eudora users and Netscape Mail users do too. Other users of each of these browsers are in category 3. I haven't gotten consistent data from everyone but generally the older versions have the problem and the newer ones don't. For example, Pegasus 2.4 reported in category 1 but Pegasus 3.1 reported in category 3. I don't really know what causes the problem exactly, but it seems to have something to do with the text attributes of the sent mail and whether or not the receiving browser can handle them. MS Exchange has a sort of word processor interface that allows you to change fonts, tab text, insert graphics, etc. I don't know if the formatting instructions are an actual attachment or not in MSE, but some (older?) browsers appear to think so at any rate. SO the bottom line is, If you're in category 1, be sure you're using the latest possible version of your browser, and if you're in category 2, see if you can find a browser to use that doesn't do fancy formatting on your notes. I switched to MS Internet Mail because it has an easy migration path to preserve my existing MSE mail and folders. Hopefully I've put enough detail here to settle this so we can get back to beekeeping. ---------- > From: Eric Abell <[log in to unmask]> > To: [log in to unmask] > Subject: Re: Does your browser choke on my notes? > Date: Wednesday, August 27, 1997 8:05 AM > > At 07:22 AM 25/08/97 -0700, you wrote: > >Stop talking about this in the group, it isn't bee related. Thank you > >At 09:53 PM 8/24/97 -0400, you wrote: > >>Bob Rolfness wrote: > >>> > >>> Michael Reddell wrote: > >>> > > >>> > This week I recieved a complaint from a Bee-L subscriber who finds that > >each note I send to the list has a binary attachment that causes > >>> problems for his e-mai > > I have no objection. There are lots of topics that are touched upon that > are not quite 'bee related'. This is causing some subscribers a problem and > perhaps another subscriber can provide a solution. > > Eric > Eric Abell > Gibbons, Alberta Canada T0A 1N0 > Ph/fax (403) 998 3143 > [log in to unmask]