gif attachments/HTML formats (response to Rose)

[Neil Ward]

Rose said:

> Has anyone else gotten any files? I don't mind ignoring them, but I just
> thought that if you knew what the problem was you might be able to fix it.
> But if you don't know, don't bother. :-)

For Rose and anyone else experiencing this....

The sender can set the message to plain text or html before they send it, so
anyone who has the HTML setting 'on' will send a colour banner ad along with
their message - that's the gif (graphical image file?) attachment you are
seeing on Amanda's (and Dee's) messages.  Most people have have 'plain text'
selected.  With those, you still get an ad, but it's just plain text at the
bottom of each message.  There should be one at the bottom of this message.

If you are getting a gif attachment with every message, you can stop this by
altering your delivery settings.  Go the the group's welcome page and click
on 'delivery options' at top right.  One of the options there is to convert
all text e-mail's to HTML; if you have that selected, turn it off.  You will
still get the attachments on messages from people who are sending HTML
e-mails, but the majority of messages received won't have an attachment.

Here's a link to our opening page.

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/HPforGrownups

Neil
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