[CAUT] attachments

[Ron Nossaman]

Since about 6:00pm November 2, nearly every post has carried 
what appears to me to be an utterly useless attachment, where 
prior to that, very few did. Why, and must they? I happen to 
use the attachment flag as an indication that someone has 
intentionally attached something that is presumably considered 
to be of interest (and oddly, often is). When everything in 
the mailbox has the flag, and the attachment carries no useful 
information that isn't already in the address line, the flag 
is rendered effectively useless as a differentiation between 
an attached photo, and 42 nested levels of untrimmed replies 
with html formatting and dancing smiley faces. Is it really 
necessary to arbitrarily kill a useful built in function of 
the mail client with this? This is as obnoxious as the .vcf cards.

Disgruntled mail hostage,
Ron N

PS: This message was sent WITHOUT attachments of any kind, 
however it arrived.