--- Forwarded Message from Tommy McDonell <[log in to unmask]> ---

>Date: Fri, 29 Oct 1999 19:34:36 -0400
>From: Tommy McDonell <[log in to unmask]>
>Reply-To: [log in to unmask]
>Organization: Learning English Adult Program
>To: Language Learning and Technology International Information Forum     <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Re: #5282 Attachments to E-Mail
>References: <[log in to unmask]>

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I'm not positive of this but when I used to have AOL longer messages were
mimed. However he can just go to keyword and type in mime and download the
software and translate it. But I believe that it is AOL that is doing this.
Were your second documents longer? Tommy in NYC

LLTI-Editor wrote:

> --- Forwarded Message from [log in to unmask] (Gordon Hartig) ---
>
> >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