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[Scott Silva]

Kevin Miller spake the following on 1/26/2006 3:46 PM:
> Scott Silva wrote:
>> Although this "might" be possible, a better alternative would be to
>> send a bounce that asks the sender to not use this vendor locked
>> format to send mail 
>> to the rest of the world. Not everyone uses, or has a desire to use,
>> Outlook. Outlook should not default to sending in this format.
>> Or at least have a warning that the message might not be readable to
>> the rest of the world and it might cause nasty e-mails and phone calls
> 
>> from the receivers. 
> 
> That's what I'm currently doing.  Stole the verbage on how to change the
> sending format from sender.error.report.txt and pasted it into
> sender.content.report.txt.  I turned on postmaster virus notification so
> I could see how much of an impact I'm having.  Naturally, the mail
> that's coming in is naturally for the mucky-mucks at the top of the food
> chain.  And, just as naturally some of the senders are frequent fliers
> who either 1) can't read, 2) can't follow directions, or 3) won't follow
> directions.
> 
> So far I've gotten 9 messages today (out of 4000+ inbound).  Could be
> worse I guess...
> 
> ...Kevin
I had to cave to the pressure and allow them -- for now.
Ours are from lawyers -- need I say more?



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