If you use the Internet Mail program built into Microsoft Windows 95 (or the one bundled with Internet Explorer) you are in danger of unintentionally aggravating your pals on SCREEN-L and other discussion lists! MS Mail can add a bunch of garbarge to the end of a message--as we just saw with a message from Rob Yengst (sorry, don't mean to pick on you, Rob!) that ended with: >begin 600 WINMAIL.DAT >M>)\^(C$+`0:0" `$```````!``$``0>0!@`(````Y 0```````#H``$-@ 0` >M`@````(``@`!!) &`$ !```!````# ````,``# #````"P`/#@`````"`?\/ >M`0```%<`````````@2L?I+ZC$!F=;@#=`0]4`@````!&:6QM(&%N9"!45B!3 Followed by a couple dozen more lines of nonsense characters. What causes this? I believe it is MS Mail's encoding of messages to make them "Quoted Printable"--which allows special characters and formating in the messages. If this encoding is used on messages sent to SCREEN-L, it will generate junk like the above and aggravate SCREEN-L subscribers no end. How do you get rid of it? In MS Mail, 1. Choose Settings from the Format menu. 2. In the "Plain Text Settings" dialog box, under "MIME," make sure that the choice for "Encode text using" is set to "None" and *not* "Quoted Printable." I'm not 100% sure that this is the solution. I read about it a couple of weeks ago and did not save the information, but I'm pretty sure that "Quoted Printable" messages are the problem here. Regards, ---- Jeremy Butler mailto:[log in to unmask] SCREENsite http://www.sa.ua.edu/SCREENsite Telecommunication & Film/University of Alabama/Tuscaloosa ---- To signoff SCREEN-L, e-mail [log in to unmask] and put SIGNOFF SCREEN-L in the message. Problems? Contact [log in to unmask]