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It looks like its been forwarded mutiple times as there are shades of
Outlook as well as Incredimail in there and their HTML is often
non-standard, as Jim indicated with the image that had the alt tag and
nothing else. I suspect its the sender of the message that has messed it up
and its not an OE problem per se.

In addition, you need to turn off email scanning with your antivirus
software. With AVG you have to uninstall it and then reinstall it and
disable the email scanning option when you do the reinstall. see
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

steve

"Bill" wrote in message
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Did you get the file Jim?

Bill
"Bill" wrote in message
...
Sent again Jim

"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
...
Hi Bill: Haven't received it and it's now some 30 minutes later. Want
to try resending it? ( )
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Windows Mail applications
Please reply only to the newsgroup.

"Bill" wrote in message
...
Sent

"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
...
Sorry, my error in my first reply. I didn't scroll down far enough to
see images properly embedded. What you might do, if you wish, is
forward the mail to me and let me look at it to see if any obvious
error can be found in its handling. Without that, it's really hard to
tell. If you wish to forward it, please do as an attachment (I.e.,
right click on the message in the list, and select Forward as
attachment) and send it to jim @ mvps.org
removing the spaces from the address.
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Windows Mail applications
Please reply only to the newsgroup.

Jim

Oh well - neither of the two I sent were bounced, so as you say they are
stuck somewhere!

I think what Steve has said is true - since it was one of those jokes that
do the rounds.

Unfortunately my source had deleted it from his Hotmail; I might try to
reconstruct it in Word sometime. Weather too nice for indoors - going to be
35C today.

Thanks for your interest.

Bill

"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
...
No message received Bill. Sorry. Checked all spam filters to see if it
might have been trapped, but no go. It's stuck somewhere else.
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Windows Mail applications
Please reply only to the newsgroup.

"Bill" wrote in message
...
Did you get the file Jim?

Bill
"Bill" wrote in message
...
Sent again Jim

"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
...
Hi Bill: Haven't received it and it's now some 30 minutes later. Want
to try resending it? ( )
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Windows Mail applications
Please reply only to the newsgroup.

"Bill" wrote in message
...
Sent

"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
...
Sorry, my error in my first reply. I didn't scroll down far enough
to see images properly embedded. What you might do, if you wish, is
forward the mail to me and let me look at it to see if any obvious
error can be found in its handling. Without that, it's really hard
to tell. If you wish to forward it, please do as an attachment (I.e.,
right click on the message in the list, and select Forward as
attachment) and send it to jim @ mvps.org
removing the spaces from the address.
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Windows Mail applications
Please reply only to the newsgroup.

Steve

Thanks for your advice.

Have fixed AVG - all the things to do when breaking in a new computer!

Bill

"Steve Cochran" wrote in message
...

It looks like its been forwarded mutiple times as there are shades of
Outlook as well as Incredimail in there and their HTML is often
non-standard, as Jim indicated with the image that had the alt tag and
nothing else. I suspect its the sender of the message that has messed it
up and its not an OE problem per se.

In addition, you need to turn off email scanning with your antivirus
software. With AVG you have to uninstall it and then reinstall it and
disable the email scanning option when you do the reinstall. see
www.oehelp.com/OETips.aspx#3

steve

"Bill" wrote in message
...
Did you get the file Jim?

Bill
"Bill" wrote in message
...
Sent again Jim

"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
...
Hi Bill: Haven't received it and it's now some 30 minutes later. Want
to try resending it? ( )
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Windows Mail applications
Please reply only to the newsgroup.

"Bill" wrote in message
...
Sent

"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
...
Sorry, my error in my first reply. I didn't scroll down far enough
to see images properly embedded. What you might do, if you wish, is
forward the mail to me and let me look at it to see if any obvious
error can be found in its handling. Without that, it's really hard
to tell. If you wish to forward it, please do as an attachment (I.e.,
right click on the message in the list, and select Forward as
attachment) and send it to jim @ mvps.org
removing the spaces from the address.
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Windows Mail applications
Please reply only to the newsgroup.

OK. Enjoy the nice weather in Canberra. Sorry we couldn't help more and
thanks for the feedback.
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Windows Mail applications
Please reply only to the newsgroup.

"Bill" wrote in message
...
Jim

Oh well - neither of the two I sent were bounced, so as you say they are
stuck somewhere!

I think what Steve has said is true - since it was one of those jokes that
do the rounds.

Unfortunately my source had deleted it from his Hotmail; I might try to
reconstruct it in Word sometime. Weather too nice for indoors - going to
be 35C today.

Thanks for your interest.

Bill

"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
...
No message received Bill. Sorry. Checked all spam filters to see if it
might have been trapped, but no go. It's stuck somewhere else.
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Windows Mail applications
Please reply only to the newsgroup.

"Bill" wrote in message
...
Did you get the file Jim?

Bill
"Bill" wrote in message
...
Sent again Jim

"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
...
Hi Bill: Haven't received it and it's now some 30 minutes later.
Want to try resending it? ( )
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Windows Mail applications
Please reply only to the newsgroup.

"Bill" wrote in message
...
Sent

"Jim Pickering" wrote in message
...
Sorry, my error in my first reply. I didn't scroll down far enough
to see images properly embedded. What you might do, if you wish, is
forward the mail to me and let me look at it to see if any obvious
error can be found in its handling. Without that, it's really hard
to tell. If you wish to forward it, please do as an attachment
(I.e., right click on the message in the list, and select Forward as
attachment) and send it to jim @ mvps.org
removing the spaces from the address.
--
Jim Pickering
MVP-Windows Mail applications
Please reply only to the newsgroup.

The sending program did screw up the HTML code.

The little boxes you saw with the 3 colored objects and the image name
are caused by the

IMG alt=184acf.gif

tags. There are 10 of those scatter in the message. They are all
missing the actual SRC field specifying the actual image file. So
somewhere along the way, the images got lost.

At the bottom of the message are 10 tags such as

IMG SRC="CID:{35C0E555-BFFB-45B0-A889-139B99CA1A08}/ATT1423665.gif"

That's a suitable syntax provided that at the bottom of the message are
the encoded images with matching Content-ID along the lines of

------=_NextPart_xxxx
Content-Type: image/gif;
name="ATT1423665"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-ID: {35C0E555-BFFB-45B0-A889-139B99CA1A08}/ATT1423665.gif

fkdsljflkdsfjl;ksdjf;lksjl;kjfhgjI
..... the rest of the encoded attachment.

In that case, the 10 images should have been displayed at the bottom of
the message. However, if the encoded attachments are missing, or the
IMG SRC CID doesn't match the Content-ID:, then you'd get just the
little box with the red X in it.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm

"Bill" wrote in message
...
Follows:

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BLOCKQUOTE style="PADDING-LEFT: 5px; MARGIN-LEFT: 5px; BORDER-LEFT:
#a0c6e5 2px solid; MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"FONT style="FONT-SIZE: 11px;
FONT-FAMILY: tahoma,sans-serif"BR
META content="Microsoft SafeHTML" name=Generator
STYLE
/STYLE

DIV /DIV
DIV dir=ltr align=leftFONT face=Arial color=#0000ff
size=2/FONT /DIV
BLOCKQUOTE dir=ltr style="MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px"
DIV class=OutlookMessageHeader lang=en-us dir=ltr align=leftFONT
face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2FONT color=#000000Does the statement
"Because we've always done it that way" ring any
bells? /FONTFONT size=3BR/FONT/FONT/DIV
DIV
PFONT face=ArialFONT
size=2BR      &nb sp;       &nbsp ;        & nbsp;     
IMG alt=184ac0.gif/FONTBRBRFONT size=2When you see a Space
Shuttle sitting on its launch pad, there are two big booster
rockets/FONTFONT color=blue size=2 /FONT/FONTFONT face=Arial
size=2attached to the sides of the main fuel tank. These are solid
rocket boosters, or SRBs. BRThe SRBs are made by Thiokol at their
factory at Utah. The engineers who designed the SRBs would have
preferred to make them a bit fatter, but the SRBs had to be shipped by
train from the factory to the launch site. The railroad line from the
factory happens to run BRthrough a tunnel in the mountains. The SRBs
had to fit through     /FONTIMG alt=184acf.gifFONT
face=Arial size=2BRthat tunnel. The tunnel is slightly wider than
the railroad track/FONT
TABLE width="100%"
TBODY
TR
TD width="100%"FONT face="Times New Roman" size=3 /FONT
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TABLE width="100%"
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TR
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PFONT face=Arial color=#0000ff size=2/FONTBR
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size=3SPAN/SPAN/FONT /DIV
DIVFONT face="Times New Roman"
size=3SPAN/SPAN/FONT /DIV
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size=3SPAN/SPAN/FONT /DIV
DIVFONT face="Times New Roman" size=3SPAN/SPANBR/FONTIMG
alt=184a52.gifFONT face=Arial size=2BRBRThe US standard
railroad gauge (distance between the rails) is 4 feet, 8.5 inches.
BRThat's an exceedingly odd number. Why was that gauge used?
BRBRBecause that's the way they built them in England and English
expatriates built the US Railroads.          
    BR             
       /FONTIMG alt=184a62.gifFONT face=Arial
size=2BRBRBRWhy did the English build them like that?
BRBRBecause the first rail lines were built by the same people who
built the pre-railroad tramways and that's the gauge they used.
BRBRWhy did "they" use that gauge then?      
                   
       
           BRBRBecause the people
who built the tramways used the same jigs and tools that they used for
building wagons, which used that wheel spacing. BR   
 /FONTIMG alt=184a71.gifFONT face=Arial size=2BRBROkay!
Why did the wagons have that particular odd wheel spacing?
BRBRWell if they tried to use any other spacing, the wagon wheels
would break on some of the old, long distance roads in England,
because that's the spacing of the wheel ruts. BRBRSo who built
those old rutted roads? BRBR         
              /FONTIMG
alt=184a81.gifFONT face=Arial size=2BRBRImperial Rome built the
first long distance roads in Europe (and England) for their legions.
/FONTFONT face=Arial size=3  /FONTFONT face=Arial
size=2The roads have been used
ever since. BRBRAnd the ruts in the roads?
BRBR /FONTIMG alt=184a91.gifFONT face=Arial
size=2BRBRRoman war chariots formed the initial ruts, which
everyone else had to match for fear of destroying their wagon wheels.
/FONTFONT face=Arial size=3BR/FONTBRFONT face=Arial
size=2Since the chariots were made for Imperial Rome,
they/FONTFONT face=Arial color=blue size=2 /FONTFONT face=Arial
size=2were all alike in the matter of wheel spacing..  
 /FONTIMG alt=184aa0.gifFONT face=Arial size=2BRThe
United States standard railroad gauge of 4 feet, 8.5 inches is derived
from the original specifications for an Imperial Roman war
chariot./FONT BRFONT face=Arial size=2And bureaucracies live
forever. BRBRSo the next time you are handed a specification and
wonder what horse's ass came up with it, you may be exactly right,
/FONT/DIV
PFONT face=Arial size=3 /FONTFONT face=Arial
size=2because the Imperial Roman army  /FONTIMG
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PFONT face=Arial size=2chariots were made just wide enough to
accommodate the back ends of two war horses. BRBR/FONTFONT
face=Arial size=2BR/FONTFONT face=Arial size=2 BRBRSo,
a major Space Shuttle design feature of what is arguably the world's
most advanced transportation system was determined over two thousand
years ago by the width of a horse's ass./FONTFONT face="Times New
Roman" size=3 /FONT/P
PFONT face=Arial size=3 /FONTFONT face=Arial size=2
      BR/FONTIMG alt=184adf.gifFONT face=Arial
size=5BR... and you thought being a HORSE'S BACKSIDE wasn't
important!/FONTA
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Messenger/a Download today it's FREE!/html
PHR/PP

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virus found in this incoming message.BR
Checked by AVG Free Edition.BR
Version: 7.5.432 / Virus Database: 268.17.12/653 - Release Date:
26/01/2007 11:11 AMBR

Thanks Bill

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
There's probably something screwy in the message HTML code.

If you do a Ctrl-F2 while viewing the message, that will open a
Window with the HTML code. You can copy/paste that here so that we
can see it.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm

"Bill" wrote in message
...
Mike

OK Thanks - I can see as attachments - but when I change settings in
Tools|Options|Security I still can't get the images to display
"inline". Being a number of them its hard to relate the text to the
images.

Any more ideas?

Bill

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
That's an Active-X logo. It means that the HTML code needs to run
an Active-X program to display the image and it can't due to
security settings or other problems.

If you just want to see the images, then select Tools, Options,
Read, Read All messages in plain text. Then switch to another
message and back to the problem one. The images should appear as
attachments.

Or you could try changing the security zone for OE to Internet and
see if that works.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm

"Bill" wrote in message
...
Bruce

Your very own copy:

BTW what is "IB-CA"?

"Bruce Hagen" wrote in message
...
QP
Its not a red X but a small logo consisting of a red square, a
green circle
and a blue triangle with the name of the file next to it.
/QP

I have not had the pleasure of seeing this before. It may be
/how/ it was
sent, but other than that, I have no idea.

Please keep checking back here. Someone else may well have an
answer for
you.
--
Bruce Hagen
MS-MVP Outlook Express
~IB-CA~

"Michael Santovec" wrote in message
...
The sending program did screw up the HTML code.

The little boxes you saw with the 3 colored objects and the image name are
caused by the

IMG alt=184acf.gif

tags. There are 10 of those scatter in the message. They are all missing
the actual SRC field specifying the actual image file. So somewhere along
the way, the images got lost.

At the bottom of the message are 10 tags such as

IMG SRC="CID:{35C0E555-BFFB-45B0-A889-139B99CA1A08}/ATT1423665.gif"

That's a suitable syntax provided that at the bottom of the message are
the encoded images with matching Content-ID along the lines of

------=_NextPart_xxxx
Content-Type: image/gif;
name="ATT1423665"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-ID: {35C0E555-BFFB-45B0-A889-139B99CA1A08}/ATT1423665.gif

fkdsljflkdsfjl;ksdjf;lksjl;kjfhgjI
.... the rest of the encoded attachment.

In that case, the 10 images should have been displayed at the bottom of
the message. However, if the encoded attachments are missing, or the IMG
SRC CID doesn't match the Content-ID:, then you'd get just the little box
with the red X in it.

--

Mike - http://pages.prodigy.net/michael_santovec/techhelp.htm

snip

Mike

Thanks for your input - I've got myself a nice little 'jigsaw puzzle' to try
and match the text with the images! One for a rainy day - if only it would
rain around here.

Bill