[MD] The MoQ and Politics? part 1 of 3

[Horse]

Fromage!

That's about the way of it Mary. Some post are sent with lots of extra 
data and some aren't. All I can do is clear up the problems.

I may get angry and stroppy with members but I do always try to be fair.

Horse

On 29/01/2011 19:20, Mary wrote:
> Hello Horse,
>
> Thank you for the explanation.  I think I see the problem now.
>
> I happen to use Outlook 2010.  By default, it formats everything as either
> HTML or an XML variant.  I was never too worried about this in the past
> because html gets converted to plain text on the fly - or so I thought.  I
> know that if I am replying, the format used is whatever was used by the
> original post, so replies are probably clean.  The one rejected recently,
> however, was not a reply, but a new thread.  Voila!  The server receives a
> ton of html and xml tags.  At least that's my theory 'cause I know it ain't
> from massive quantities of text. 10kb is a hell of a lot of words.
>
> Outlook is stubborn and secretive.  It doesn't tell you what message format
> it has decided to use, and upgrades you from text to fancy stuff on the fly.
> It does not ask.  If you put a single hyperlink in an email you get html
> format at a minimum - like it or not.  It is hard to force it to downgrade
> to text (and be sure it's done it).  I don't like it, but it's what is used
> at my office and I have to be able to connect to an Exchange server.  Yeah,
> I imagine other mail clients can do that, but they wouldn't support IM, Live
> Meeting, or Sharepoint - which I also must be able to get to.  For all I
> know Outlook is trying to send a live video feed to MoQ-Discuss!
>
> Say cheese,
> Mary
>
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