On Wed, 17 Sep 1997, Redneck Gaijin wrote:

Second, someone sent a story in WPD format earlier today. This email locked
my Eudora email client up- the email would never download completely, so I
couldn't get to the following emails. I had to use my Netscape mail client
(which I hate) to clear out the offending mail.

	<chuckle> Bloody miracle that I find myself agreeing with Redneckm
but if he's talking about the story from a certain Emperor Steven The Mega
Man (blahblahblah) he's got a point. PINE, which I use, being limited to a
telnetted UNIX session, simply choked on that fic. Listed as being a 17K
attachment, when read, there simply WAS no attachment to opne, and no
text. Simply a blank letter that somehow still managed to be 17 K long. 

	MOST IRRITATING!

Please remember, people: PLAIN TEXT FORMAT ONLY. That way, you don't get
flamed by people who either can't read the story or whose email clients have
been hosed by the attachment.

	Again, I find I gotta side with the Gaijin on this one, folks. 
Emperor Steve, _please_ stick with plain text, and paste it into the body
of the message. Attachments are for (listen _carefully_ now) BINARY FILES. 
You know.. misc.wav or misc.jpg or misc.gif or misc.zip.. files that HAVE
to be sent in binary format in order to work. Attachments were never meant
for text.

	Thanks.

	Ed Becerra

	"Dreamers may die, but the dream is eternal..."