Re: "Ghost" Attachments Revisited
- From: "Yardbird" <yardbird@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 13:00:16 -0700
Hi,
That's because Eudora has separated them from the message. That's all.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Evelyn Weckerly" <weckerly@xxxxxxx>
To: <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 12:59 PM
Subject: Re: "Ghost" Attachments Revisited
Hi,
Actually, when I have gone into my Eudora attach file, I hae actually found
those things there even though they don't show up at the bottom of a
message.
Evelyn
At 03:28 PM 9/30/05, you wrote:
>Hi,
>
>I don't know the most concise way to explain the ghost attachment issue,
>but
>someone else will explain, I hope. Meantime, it may be useful to
>distinguish between Jaws and other applications here, in both instances.
>Jaws is only speaking what you'd see, in your Inbox. You'd see a symbol
>denoting an attachment, only to open the message, look for the attachment,
>and find that there wasn't any. Jaws isn't the agent of this
>misinformation.
>
>Also, Jaws wouldn't be changing or disrupting anything in your mailing list
>deliveries in any way. Jaws doesn't act upon other programs, in this
>sense.
>So neither of these is a Jaws problem.
>
>Hope that helps. I'll make a lame stab at explaining the phantom
>attachment thing. On many emails these days, there appear right in the
>message area things such as blurbs saying that the AVG antivirus program
>has
>certified the message to be clean, and to a Jaws user or a sighted person,
>I
>think, these messages appear right within the message area as if they were
>much like our email signatures.But for some reason, some mail programs
>recognize them as attachments, and either announce their presence, as in
>Outlook Express, or file them in a special catch-place, as I understand
>Eudora does. But it's just a mistake, or a quirk. Which doesn't mean you
>shouldn't check to see if there's an attachment, because if there were,
>you'd want to know whether it was something you actually wanted, and wanted
>to open, or something suspicious you'd prefer to delete.
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Dave Mitchell" <mitch44@xxxxxxxxx>
>To: "jfw list" <jfw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>Sent: Friday, September 30, 2005 9:59 AM
>Subject: "Ghost" Attachments Revisited
>
>
>Hi, Can someone remind me again why JAWS announces attachments on certain
>E
>mails when no such actual attachments exist?
>Also, certain daily e mails from various lists have stopped coming to my In
>Box and perhaps some JAWS setting or other is causing this interference but
>I don't know the fix as no settings, to my knowledge, have been changed.
>Any ideas welcome at
>
>mitch44@xxxxxxxxx
>
>Enjoy your weekend! Mitch
>
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>No virus found in this incoming message.
>Checked by AVG Anti-Virus.
>Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.8/114 - Release Date: 9/28/2005
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>Version: 7.0.344 / Virus Database: 267.11.8/114 - Release Date: 9/28/2005
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