'Boozo' Demoronisation Dept.

Mega$loth® Outlandish Express™ Problems

Many people new to the net have problems which can be traced to the 'default settings' of Mega$loth® Outlandish Express™ software, which result in non-compliant messages being sent on the Internet. Not only that, the messages may be larger than necessary, and as well as increasing the volume of Internet traffic, may also affect both your own and the recipient's phone bills if you are on dial-up connections.

In turn, this can often lead to complaints, particularly from subscribers to non-binary newsgroups, who object to receiving HTML-encoded attachments.

This page is intended to help you configure your email software in order to enable you to obtain the best productivity from your computer.

Please follow these instructions so that future emails and news postings you send will be Internet compliant.

Configuring Mega$loth® Outlandish Express™ correctly:

• Load Outlandish Express™
• Click on the 'Tools' option on the menu bar and select 'Options...' This will open the options control window.
• Click on the 'Send' tag at the top.
• Under the "Mail sending format", ensure that the 'Plain Text' option is ticked, by clicking on it if needed.
• Click on the 'Settings' box to the right of this option.
• Ensure that the option 'Encode text using' box is set to 'None' and click 'OK'.
• Repeat steps 4-6 for the "News sending format".
• Ensure that the 'Include message in reply' option is turned OFF - ie. no tick - by clicking on it if required.
• Ensure that 'Reply to messages using the format in which they were sent' is turned OFF - ie. no tick - by clicking on it if required.
• Click 'OK' to activate your new settings.

Outlandish Express™ should now be set up correctly.

If you need more information about 'Usenet' Newsgroups, and how to get to grips with them ('Netiquette'), please subscribe to 'news.announce.newusers' and 'news.newusers.questions'. Most seasoned users also apply these principles to their emails.

Thank you.
The Editor