I recently left AOL for a new email address. Initially received this newsgroup digest OK, although there was a lot of clutter at the beginning of each one. Then switched to Outlook Express. With the same email address, still receiving the daily digest. But there's no text, just a bunch of attached files. The first usually contails a list of the posts and administrative info. Then each posting is a separate attachment. It's awkward, each attachment takes multiple clicks, etc, to view. What am I, or Outlook, doing wrong? What's the simple fix? BTW, I've been using FO for a number of years, bought a lot of programs from Parsons. Now up to v9, figure I'll wait for RootsMate. Toyed with some other genealogy programs, but appreciate FO's documentation capabilitiy. My wish for FO/Rootsmate is better/easier filter/display. I have a large db with many unconnected entries, culled from different sources. A George here with a birthdate, another who served in the Civil War, a marriage there. But how to put together this jigsaw puzzle? Thom Richardson

Hi Thom Actually I think you are at a better advantage than I I was using Outlook and I think it was updated one day and I got the same blank thing except for when I opened it there was a band across the top that said the attachment had been removed for my safety or some such thing. And on one of the lists I was on somebody said that while the letter with the little paperclip(meaning an attachment) was highlighted just hit <ctrl> <F3> and you will see everything at once Mostly first you will see numbered list of the attachments...Then you can choose to go to that number, if you desire. And you can do a copy and paste on any part of the message that interests you so that you can then send it to yourself for saving or sharing See in my signature below what I did after I started not getting my attachments SANDRA TYLER DUNCAN Sacramento,CA http://www.gencircles.com/users/purplevw1/1/ http://www.progenealogists.com/genealogysleuthb.htm all my mail scanned by Norton Below is the only place that will accept attachments [email protected] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Thom Richardson" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, July 27, 2002 8:25 AM Subject: [FO] Newsgroup format? > I recently left AOL for a new email address. Initially received this newsgroup digest OK, although there was a lot of clutter at the beginning of each one. > > Then switched to Outlook Express. With the same email address, still receiving the daily digest. But there's no text, just a bunch of attached files. The first usually contails a list of the posts and administrative info. Then each posting is a separate attachment. It's awkward, each attachment takes multiple clicks, etc, to view. > > What am I, or Outlook, doing wrong? What's the simple fix? > > BTW, I've been using FO for a number of years, bought a lot of programs from Parsons. Now up to v9, figure I'll wait for RootsMate. Toyed with some other genealogy programs, but appreciate FO's documentation capabilitiy. > > My wish for FO/Rootsmate is better/easier filter/display. I have a large db with many unconnected entries, culled from different sources. A George here with a birthdate, another who served in the Civil War, a marriage there. But how to put together this jigsaw puzzle? > > Thom Richardson > > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > PLEASE send personal replies and "THANK YOU" message privately. All messages on this list are archived and archiving takes up valuable space. >

On Sat, 27 Jul 2002, Thom Richardson wrote: > receiving the daily digest. But there's no text, just a bunch of > attached files. The first usually contails a list of the posts and > administrative info. Then each posting is a separate attachment. > It's awkward, each attachment takes multiple clicks, etc, to view. This is the way that I get the digest, too. But this is the way that I LIKE it. I am on other email lists where the entire digest comes in one file and it is SO ANNOYING. I have trouble finding the messages that I want to read amidst all the others. I don't know how to solve your problem, but please, don't anyone change the digest format. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% Jane Huggins, Ph.D., ATP "In the cross of Christ, justice and mercy come together." [email protected] -- James Paternoster %%%%%%%%%%%%% http://www-personal.engin.umich.edu/~janeh %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%