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Subject:Re: winmail.dat
From:David Beierl
Date:Thu, 13 Jan 2000 17:10:16 -0500

At 15:56 1/13/00 , Bill James wrote:
>I chose to unsubcribe from the list  because suddenly yesterday,
>winmail.dat file caused Eudora to crash the mail.  If listees BILL and Rich
>YOung could turn off  MS RTF (rich text format)  or if the network
>administrator can disable these files I would appreciate it.  I have only
>joined the list a few weeks back and do get tons of information from it.

Winmail.dat shouldn't crash Eudora.  Lord knows I get enough of
them.  They're obnoxious and an unpleasant reminder of the fact that
sitting on a T1 pipe is a poor place for an email developer, but aside from
the space and bandwidth they take up, and the attitude they express,
they're harmless.

cheers,
david
David Beierl - Providence, RI
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