The popularity of e-mail continues to change the Net landscape. Gradually, strange epistles started to appear. Lots of New People With the arrival of new people to cyberspace, many surf with little or no training. After just a few minutes of orientation by phone with tech support, the browser, dialer and e-mail settings are established. This is usually the extent of training.
Newbies then start roaming around.
Quickly, new people realize they can use the Internet Explorer mail program to send attachments - pictures, files, music and more. They search the hard drive and automatically attach a file to the e-mail message. Here is where the trouble begins. A few simple guidelines can avoid many of the more common problems. Netiquette suggests you first send a plain text file to the recipient and ask them politely which e-mail program they use.