SP> From: Andy Bach 
 SP> Subject: Rid yourself of the Winmail.dat Demon!
 SP> I have seen a winmail.dat a couple times a day for the 
 SP> last week, so it looks
 SP> like time to repost this (orig. from Larry Resch):
 SP>         I have a request for all users of Exchange.  It 
 SP> seems that Exchange
 SP>      adds an additional attachment (WINMAIL.DAT) to all of your e-mail 
and
 SP>      I wonder if you could disable it.  It seems that this attachment is
Hey, I *like* the way Exchange and outlook do e-mail with https extention and 
that requires the winmail.dat file and -I- certainly will not remove it as it 
really makes your e-mail more like something you would do with a good GUI 
word processor. It's a giant step forward over crappy looking text based 
email like Eudora.
The fact of the matter is that most people that I and most anyone else using 
Exchange or outlook do is send e-mail to other people using software that can 
handle it. I'm certainly not going to disable it as it ain't no big deal to 
those that don't have a reader that can handle it.
 SP>      used only by Exchange and those of us not using it are cursed with 
an
 SP>      attachment that basically repeats your standard text message 
although
 SP>      at a much larger size.....
 SP>         I have included at the bottom a message that was forwarded to 

Ah, this is no biggy and you know it. Just read the message and move on. It's 
silly to expect the majority of internet users out there to accept something 
less sophisticated and useful just because you are annoyed by a very tiny 
file attatchment. No body told you to open it up and see what it was.
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