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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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