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cmcgee
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Short Answer to a Short Question
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Sep 23 14:39 UTC 2000 |
If you have a question with a short answer or even a short question, enter
it here to receive the advice and wisdom of other Grexers.
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cmcgee
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response 1 of 365:
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Sep 23 14:44 UTC 2000 |
I need to tell someone using Microsoft Outlook and Windows 98 how to
eliminate the HTML version of their email that is automatically being sent.
Following the directions in the Help menu gives me some menu options that
don't seem to exist.
Anyone have any clues?
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rcurl
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response 2 of 365:
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Sep 23 15:01 UTC 2000 |
Here are some instructions I picked up somewhere:
(Instructions picked up from a bbs)
IE is the web browser. The mail client that comes with it is Outlook
Express. I have been using IE 4.0 and OE since the day they came out. I
can not stand sending e-mail with HTML for no good reason. To turn off
that annoying feature:
Pull down Tools and select Options In the Send tab, switch from the
default HTML to Plain Text.
Before I discovered this option, the way I discovered I was sending HTML
was that I sent an e-mail to one of those pagers which puts the beginning
of your e-mail on the pager's display. I was careful to put the gist of
the message in at the beginning, but it did not help. All that showed up
in the pager was HTML tags!
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cmcgee
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response 3 of 365:
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Sep 25 18:38 UTC 2000 |
Thanks
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keesan
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response 4 of 365:
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Sep 26 14:45 UTC 2000 |
Is it illegal to call someone's phone with a recorded announcement? We got
one of these on the answering machine (type 1 to learn more) and one from some
church just now. Of course they don't leave a phone number. Do people with
call waiting have answering machines that recorded the originating number?
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jiffer
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response 5 of 365:
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Sep 26 14:56 UTC 2000 |
Most of the time, with caller ID it comes in as Out of Area... so you still
cannot find out who it is. In my household we don't pick up the phone for
these calls.
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johnnie
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response 6 of 365:
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Sep 26 15:20 UTC 2000 |
If it's a telemarketing call, it's illegal. I think you can sue in
small claims court for $500 or so (how handy that it was recorded!),
and/or the FCC can do whatever the FCC does. If it's a church ("Read
the bible, and God Bless!), then it's just immoral, and the miscreants
rack up time in purgatory.
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senna
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response 7 of 365:
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Sep 26 16:10 UTC 2000 |
Ann Arbor Pioneer enjoyed the idea of calling houses with a computer last year
to inform parents of their students' absenteeism. Of course, if the kid picks
up the phone, it would be pretty useless.
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jerryr
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response 8 of 365:
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Sep 26 17:27 UTC 2000 |
i have call-waiting caller id, which lets me know who is calling even when
i am on the phone. most of the calls i get are "unavailable" - this is
usually a computer generated call and i never pick those up. i screen all
my calls and my answer machine effectively deals with computer calls - they
are disconnected before the computer has time to make the connection to a
person.
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glenda
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response 9 of 365:
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Sep 26 18:21 UTC 2000 |
re #7: Huron does it also, but called late Friday night to tell me that
a "someone in your household that attends 11th grade at Huron High was absent
from a period on (date). Please call the absentee office with an
explination." What someone (as in name please) and what period would be
helpful in the matter. My kid was in school that day and the only class
missed is the one he can't find, i.e. his schedule says this room at this time
and when he goes there the room is empty or there is another class there that
started a while ago. No one that he has asked has been able to help him find
the class.
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tod
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response 10 of 365:
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Sep 26 18:22 UTC 2000 |
Architecture 101
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scg
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response 11 of 365:
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Sep 26 20:58 UTC 2000 |
I think the no recorded calls law is a Michigan law rather than a Federal law,
and as such it may not apply to those calling peoploe in Michigan from outside
Michigan. The Pac Bell phone book in California says that recorded messages
are only legal in California if they first start out with somebody asking if
you want to listen to a recorded message, but that the law doesn't apply to
Interstate calls.
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tod
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response 12 of 365:
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Sep 26 21:02 UTC 2000 |
It's the same law in Michigan, and offers an alternative of providing a beep
every 15 seconds.
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gelinas
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response 13 of 365:
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Sep 27 00:44 UTC 2000 |
Uh, isn't that beep if the call is _being recorded_ not *playing* a recording?
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cmcgee
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response 14 of 365:
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Sep 27 00:48 UTC 2000 |
Short answer: yes.
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johnnie
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response 15 of 365:
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Sep 27 03:14 UTC 2000 |
The (federal) Telephone Consumer Protection Act of 1991 makes recorded
telemarketing calls a big no-no.
(see: http://www4.law.cornell.edu/uscode/47/227.html )
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keesan
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response 16 of 365:
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Sep 28 00:33 UTC 2000 |
Why would an out-of-state church want to call us? We could not report to the
FCC who called our answering machine, as they left no phone number or name.
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danr
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response 17 of 365:
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Sep 28 12:45 UTC 2000 |
One reason they'd call you is to get you to send them money. Of course, if they
left no name or number, that would be kind of difficult for you to do. :)
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mooncat
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response 18 of 365:
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Sep 28 13:42 UTC 2000 |
I got a couple strange messages (1 one day, the 2nd the next) from
people who apparently thought I had an answering machine (I don't, I
have voicemail) and all they pretty much said was "Anne, Anne are you
home? Is anyone home? Please pick up" but they left no name, no number
(caller id didn't get it since the calls came in while Sarah or I were
online) and it's just rather frustrating to not know who called, or how
to contact them. Why would someone do something so foolish as to leave
a message and not include their name or at least a phone number?
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birdy
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response 19 of 365:
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Sep 28 14:37 UTC 2000 |
Especially two days in a row... They obviously didn't need to talk to you that
urgently... How irritating, though. And I'm particularly mad that *69 doesn't
work when our voice mail picks up after it notes we're on the phone.
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flem
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response 20 of 365:
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Sep 28 15:08 UTC 2000 |
I had my phone ring yesterday, and picked it up, and didn't even hear a
dialtone. Then I looked down, and noticed that the phone line wasn't plugged
in to it; I was on the modem! That was creepy.
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birdy
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response 21 of 365:
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Sep 28 16:20 UTC 2000 |
Oooohhh... =)
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jerryr
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response 22 of 365:
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Sep 28 18:06 UTC 2000 |
one of the reasons i like caller id is that it enables me to return calls.
the other is that it screens siding salesman. on the surface i was attracted
to voice mail, but i find my caller id display to be much more efficient when
coupled with a digital answer machine. btw, my caller id is call waiting
caller id, so it identifies who is calling while i am on another call.
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tod
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response 23 of 365:
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Sep 28 18:13 UTC 2000 |
I like it as I can get a number to call someone back without having
to dig out my phone list.
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mooncat
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response 24 of 365:
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Sep 28 21:20 UTC 2000 |
The cool thing with voicemail is that if Sarah or I are online- we can
still get messages. We can't with an answering machine
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