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In article <3234083B.4778@gil.com.au>, Barry  <atec@gil.com.au> wrote:
>jpkobie@iafrica.com wrote:

>> I wondered whether I can go into Netscape Mail, without having to make a call,
>> write my message, make the call and send it.

> Just write the thing in word or something similar and attachit

Very frustrating for those without a MIME capable mailer running under
Windows with at least Wordview installed; an irritation even then, because
of the possible need to explicitly open the attachment, launch the
application - don't let an unmodified Word launch if you don't like 
viruses) and wait for it to start.  If I receive it under Unix I'll
probably ditch it as too much trouble (useful mail is so rarely MIME that
I don't keep MIME tools online, and MS haven't yet done a free Word
viewer for Linux, and if they did it would take more disk space than
it is worth).

The correct way to use word processors to create mail for people whose
computer and mail configurations you don't know intimately, is to 
either save as plain text, with explicit line wrapping, and cut and paste
or read in that file, or to do a direct cut and paste, but only if your
mail program will (like recent versions of Pegasus) physically wrap
text being pasted.

In theory, one could have a special email printer driver, which did the
plain text conversion and prompted for addresses, but, if these exist,
they are not common.

Next problem is which groups to put this in, as it looks to be off topic
in most, if not all.  You can't really be in all of Australia, Chicago
and the Bay Area!  Also this is not a specific requirement for the
business of computer consultancy, and it is certainly not relevant to
mail transport software, as it is a user agent problem.  These two look
best:

comp.os.ms-windows.apps.winsock.mail	Winsock email applications.
comp.infosystems.www.browsers.ms-windows	Web browsers for MS Windows.

I'll go for the more mail specific one.  I'm afraid I don't read that
group, but then I don't read any other group where it would be on topic.
-- 
David Woolley, London, England          david@djwhome.demon.co.uk