Chris McCurry and the Attachment from Hell

6 posts ยท Jun 11 1997 to Jun 12 1997

From: Allan Goodall <agoodall@a...>

Date: Tue, 10 Jun 1997 22:37:52 -0400

Subject: Chris McCurry and the Attachment from Hell

Hi, gang. Um, am I the only one who gets a 75K attachment every time Chris
McCurry posts a message? The file is an encap*.ond file (which a friend tells
me is an X400 oddity). Whatever the file, it contains some Lotuscript and the
name Catherine Duffy, a Lotus Notes template developer for Iris (writers of
Lotus Notes).

Anyway, Chris could you PLEASE kill this thing? I currently have 350K of hard
drive space wasted due to these files. I'd hate to see what would
happen if I didn't check my e-mail for a week or two, let alone if I
actually had to pay for online time. I'm surprised no one else has mentioned
it. And that the poor server can handle it...

From: Oerjan Ohlson <oerjan.ohlson@t...>

Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 04:49:59 -0400

Subject: Re: Chris McCurry and the Attachment from Hell

> On Tue, 10 Jun 1997, Allan Goodall wrote:

> Hi, gang. Um, am I the only one who gets a 75K attachment every time

Probably. They're 100K when I get them:(

> Anyway, Chris could you PLEASE kill this thing?

<Chiming in, kneeling in prayer>

Regards,

From: Alun Thomas <alun.thomas@c...>

Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 05:22:03 -0400

Subject: Re: Chris McCurry and the Attachment from Hell

> Allan Goodall wrote:

> Hi, gang. Um, am I the only one who gets a 75K attachment every time

Argh! I've come to really hate Lotus Notes over the last 6 or 7
months - any idea what causes this file to be attached,
so I can avoid doing it myself?

Unfortunatly, I'm forced to use Notes :-(

From: Allan Goodall <agoodall@a...>

Date: Wed, 11 Jun 1997 23:09:43 -0400

Subject: Re: Chris McCurry and the Attachment from Hell

> At 09:22 AM 6/11/97, you wrote:

I'm not sure. I use Lotus Notes at work and I've never seen this kind of
thing. Perhaps it has something to do with the way the Internet gateway works.
Presumably these oddities will go away when your company upgrades from a Notes
server to a Domino server.

From: Owen Glover <oglover@b...>

Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 03:06:49 -0400

Subject: RE: Chris McCurry and the Attachment from Hell

The problem could be related to sending the email in Rich Text Format (eg MS
Exchange). Mail clients that do not support the embellishments that you place
in the email will receive an annoying attachment. I know this is happening to
some of our users and addressing this has solved the problems. The actual
solution is to look at the Properties for the email listing in the Personal
Address Book and ensure that the Use Rich Text Format is not selected.

Good Luck

Owen Glover IT Services

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From: Donald Hosford <hosford.donald@a...>

Date: Thu, 12 Jun 1997 12:10:10 -0400

Subject: Re: Chris McCurry and the Attachment from Hell

> Allan Goodall wrote:

If it turns out he can't turn off the attachments, maybe he should try a
different email program. I have no idea what kind of system he is using to
access the list...but if at all posible, he should try netscape 2.0
browser(with the included email program) I have found it works very
well...

I hope this helps.