On Wednesday 07 August 2002 21:55, eric wrote:
Anders,
Ok, I agree and thank you for your help in this.
My question is: What do you mean by 'real email'? If 80% of the world is using M$ what's real?
That which is defined by the standards. Everything connected to the internet is defined in documents known as RFCs (Request For Comments). No one company should be allowed to dictate what gets used on the net, because if that happens it's only a very short step to being forced to pay money for things like sending mail, which has been standardized and free for half a century (the first email app was written for the DARPAnet in the 50s) I don't have the formal definition of email at hand, but one part of it is that it should be in cleartext (ASCII I think, maybe there's an ANSI Unicode standard too) but you shouldn't need a program or protocol from one specific company to read it.
I can't tell the sender to use real email if I can't also explain to the sender how to do it. I'm caught in a Catch-22 and I'd love to be able to explain to the sender how to do this.
I'm afraid I know exactly nothing about Outlook. Others will have to help you there. There are outlook users on this list so I'm sure there's a way to do it. //Anders