I see them as well and I suspect that they are what Martha Mc. was referring
to in her note to the ADSM-L list asking/telling the people who are
requesting acknowledgments to cease and desist.

Jim Bohnsack
Raytheon Systems Co.

> ----------
> From:         Richard C. Dempsey[SMTP:dempsey AT KODAK DOT COM]
> Reply To:     ADSM: Dist Stor Manager
> Sent:         Thursday, September 30, 1999 12:17 PM
> To:   ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU
> Subject:      Re: Read: 0 Byte files
>
> ---------------------- Information from the mail header
> -----------------------
> Sender:       "ADSM: Dist Stor Manager" <ADSM-L AT VM.MARIST DOT EDU>
> Poster:       "Richard C. Dempsey" <dempsey AT KODAK DOT COM>
> Subject:      Re: Read: 0 Byte files
> --------------------------------------------------------------------------
> -----
>
> At 02:57 PM 9/30/99 +0100, you wrote:
> >Attachment Converted: "C:\data\Mail\winmail25.dat"
> >
>
> I keep getting messages from folks that are empty except for an attachment
> called winmail<xx>.dat, where <xx> is some number.  My mail reader can't
> handle these messages.  When I open them up with an editor and pore
> through
> the strings, it is all gibberish.  At the risk of living in the Dark Ages:
>
> Can anyone give me pointers to interpreting these files?
>
> Can originators of these messages send ASCII text?
>
> Thanks,
> Rich
>
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