[Wolves] Re: Wolves Digest, Vol 51, Issue 7 and a bit (a slow response)

[Howard Berry]

sorry, I've been busy at work and lethargic at home, so I haven't kept
up with the banter.
 
> Who? God, Tony Blair or Other?
> 
> Sorry, couldn't help it ;)
> 
> Ad
Other, his only saving grace is that he does not holiday with
Berlusconi.
> k
> 

> Now I feel a complete nob as you knew about trimming. Super grovelling 
> apologies. ;-(
> 
"nob" is derived from "nobility" so that's OK!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Peter Cannon
> 


> Prompted by Howard's last email I was wondering if there's any 
> method/tool/utility available that lets me make sense of these attachments?
> 
> Would save me some time when I have to respond to people telling them I can't 
> read their contact details because I'm not using any MS tools.
> 
> I'm hoping this is one of those "general questions that might be interesting 
> to all", but if the answer comes back as two thousand lines of occam2 source 
> code then I guess it won't.
> -- 
> Regards,
> 
> Pete Evans

Woooow, what attachments?
> 
> --
> 
> Message: 6
> Date: Tue, 7 Sep 2004 14:34:11 +0100
> From: Peter Cannon <peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk>
> Subject: Re: [Wolves] Winmail.dat
> To: Wolverhampton Linux User Group <wolves at mailman.lug.org.uk>
> Message-ID: <200409071434.11267.peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk>
> Content-Type: text/plain;  charset="iso-8859-1"
> 
> On Tuesday 07 Sep 2004 14:14, The wise and knowledgeable Peter Evans 
> proclaimed:
> 
> > Prompted by Howard's last email I was wondering if there's any
> > method/tool/utility available that lets me make sense of these attachments?
> 
> I'll probably not be much help but as I started the 'general/simple questions' 
> ethos I thought I would send a pointless reply just to put my money where my 
> mouth is.
> 
> What email client are you using? although that shouldn't make any difference.
> 
> > I'm hoping this is one of those "general questions that might be
> > interesting to all", but if the answer comes back as two thousand lines of
> > occam2 source code then I guess it won't.
> 
> I think we all get the hieroglyphics mails now and again the problem is at the 
> senders end not yours (I hope) :-)
> 
Doh!!
> 
> Regards
> 
> Peter Cannon
> 
> peter at cannon-linux.freeserve.co.uk
> 

> Peter Evans wrote:

> 
> Are you sure he wasn't composing his email using Word... and all you 
> ended up reading is the backwards compatible plain text version... while 
> you miss out on his wonderful formatting?
> No, no, never, honest.

> > Am I the only one that's seeing this attachment in the last mail from Howard?
> 
> Nope.  It's there for me as well - Mozzie Tbird 0.5, Debian testing.
> 
> It's a formatting file added by Outlook 2000(and not much else I don't 
> think) to outgoing mails.  You can tell it not to - I think Howard needs 
> to reconfigure his mail client... :)
OK its a fair cop. I'll come clean your honour.
I use Blueyonder's webmail when I'm at work so I don't leave any sticky
finger prints on the jam pot. It's a sort of trimmed down version of
Outlook and a bit of a pain to use to be honest.It must be some sort of
dastardly Outlook thingy that it does without being polite and asking
first.
I might just transfer my efforts to my Onetel account.
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