From owner-freebsd-stable Mon Apr 3 22:21:12 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from ptialaska.net (mail.ptialaska.net [198.70.245.245]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3640637B5CE for ; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 22:21:09 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from vizion@ptialaska.net) Received: from vizion2000 (dialups-136.sitka.ptialaska.net [198.70.227.136]) by ptialaska.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA18298; Mon, 3 Apr 2000 21:15:47 -0800 (AKDT) Message-ID: <004b01bf9df4$b298c280$88e346c6@demon.co.uk> From: "Southwell" To: "John Reynolds~" Cc: References: <002601bf9dbe$6573d3e0$45e346c6@demon.co.uk> <14569.8498.388363.581558@hip186.ch.intel.com> Subject: Re: Attachments request -OOOOOPS Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2000 21:14:45 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6600 Disposition-Notification-To: "Southwell" X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2919.6600 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Well guys I am so soooooooooooory if you had not told me I would never have known - I am hanging my head here -- I am not used to using Microsoft stuff and it appears that HTML was set by default on this machine -- the sooner I can get my new machine up with Freebsd 4.00 the better I will like it!! Please let me know if the beastly HTML and Jif stuff (aparrently for some kind of background to the mail) has dissappeared. However I would still stand by my request and you guys have made more point for me again Attachments etc are a pain in the **** Thanks ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Reynolds~" To: Sent: Monday, April 03, 2000 2:54 PM Subject: Re: Attachments request > > > I wonder whether those who post to this list would consider to = > > post without using attachments. It is a hassle to have to put stuff = > > through a virus checker when reading a mail list - so unless there are = > > very good reasons for not doing so I delete such mail list posting = > > rather than read them. I would recomend that everyone thinks very = > > carefully before opening attachments on mail lists - even one such as = > > this - it is easy for people to masquerade as others.. > > > > My experience comes from having lost a lot of data due to a virus = > > introduced from an attachment to list mail. > > We promise to not "attach" things sent to this mailing list, if you promise > to send "plain text" mail from Outlook (rather than HTML ... ). > > :) > > -Jr > > -- > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- = > | John Reynolds WCCG, CCE, Higher Levels of Abstraction | > | Intel Corporation MS: CH6-210 Phone: 480-554-9092 pgr: 602-868-6512 | > | jreynold@sedona.ch.intel.com http://www-aec.ch.intel.com/~jreynold/ | > =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=- = > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message