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>Date: Thu, 28 Oct 1999 08:57:00 -0400
>Subject: Attachments to E-Mail
>To: [log in to unmask]
>From: [log in to unmask] (Gordon Hartig)

I would like your help with a puzzling situation.  I have been sending
documents created in Word 7.0 for Windows 95 to a colleague in England.
His ISP is AOL, and he had no trouble opening and reading the first two
files I sent him as attachments to e-mail messages.  These were sent from
my home address, where erols is my ISP and I use Netscape for e-mail.

Beginning with the third document, this colleague all of a sudden could no
longer open the Word 7.0 attachments, and he is getting a message he
doesn't understand about mime format.  I resorted to saving the document
as a text file and attaching that, but I would like to know why he can no
longer read Word 7.0 attachments.  I have forwarded these same e-mail
messages from home to my school address, where I can open the Word 7.0
attachments and read them with no trouble via Office 97.  And to my
knowledge I have followed the same procedure to attach and send all of the
Word 7.0 documents.

Is there a simple explanation for this problem?   Any ideas about things
to check either on my end or his?  Thanks.

Gordon Hartig
Language Lab Coordinator
Middlesex Community College
33 Kearney Square
Lowell MA  01852
(978) 656-3358