What I find far more annoying than attachments is how often this thread
comes up (talk about "email pollution"). With new people joining the list
every day, nothing is served by returning to this every couple months IMHO.
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Greg Heier (greg@xxxxxxxx)
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> From: owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:owner-olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]On Behalf Of Jan Steinman
> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 1999 4:22 PM
> To: olympus@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: OT: Digest pollution! (was: re: [OM] another mju II zoom
> 80question)
>
>
> >From: "Tomoko Yamamoto" <tomokoy@xxxxxxxxx>
> ...
> >... the digest delivered was
> >cut off in the middle of Dave Bulger's. post. He seemed to have
> attached a
> >winmail.dat which caused my e-mail client or my server to chop
> off the digest.
> >
> >Anybody else experiencing this problem? Also this morning's
> digest has an
> >attachment which completed the digest.
>
> YES! I'm about to unsubscribe over this.
>
> Shawn, I know you're busy, but can something be done to stop this? Other
> list servers I subscribe to clip such attachments off before forwarding or
> digesting.
>
> Last I checked, I had over 30 copies of WINMAIL.DAT in my attachments
> folder! One digest alone had FOUR of them attached!
>
> I hope no one takes this as a personal flame. I'm sure they are running
> their email "out of the box" as their vendor (who shall remain nameless to
> keep their minions from filling my inbox with flames) intended.
>
> : Jan Steinman <mailto:jans@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> : 19280 Rydman Court, West Linn, OR 97068-1331 USA
> : +1.503.635.3229
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