[geeks] my head just went explodey

[Phil Brutsche]

Kurt Huhn wrote:
> For some reason, the larger portion of Corporate America seems completely
> incapable of reading email unless it's top-posted, color coded, and
> rendered in Comic Sans.  Funny little characters indeed....
> 
> Then you have things like Outlook Web Acces and Notes that make it
> *impossible* to send a plain text message.  IMPOSSIBLE!  In OWA, there is
> no setting to make a message "plain text".  It doesn't exist.

No, it's there. At least, I think it's there, it's been a while since I
used OWA...

But regardless, the management tools Microsoft provides (GPOs in
ActiveDirectory, knobs to twist in the Exchange admin console, etc)
provide the sysadmins - some of whom don't have much choice in the
matter if they want to keep their jobs, while others don't quite
understand the issue, while yet others just don't give a damn - with the
power to force outbound mail to be in rich text *or* in plain text. The
management tools also have the power to *remove the checkbox from the
end-user configuration screen*.

Chances are that's what happened.

Of course, I was also using the latest version of Exchange (Exchange
2003), and the version you are "blessed" with may not be that new.

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Phil Brutsche
phil at tux.obix.com