Need Explanation of OE6 Behavior

From: Jon Cobin (anonymous_at_discussions.microsoft.com)
Date: 10/08/04 

Date: Fri, 8 Oct 2004 10:05:50 -0700

I often like to place web pages inline with message text
in the emails I send. I do this by copying and pasting
the web page into the body of the email message text. I
haven't seen this technique mentioned anywhere--even in
the online help for Outlook Express on my W98 machine--and
I sort of discovered it on my own. It seems to work fine
most of the time, and the recipients seem to like the
format in which these things are viewable in the message
without having to explicitly open an attachment. But I am
not really aware of what's happening 'under the hood' so
to speak. I was hoping you could explain a couple of
problems I've run into, and if you can tell me if there
might be any others I might run into, I would appreciate
it:

I sometimes, but not always, get an alternate font (e.g.
Times New Roman) which replaces an Arial-like font on the
page. I also sometimes get (when actually sending) a
message about the 'encoding', asking if I would like to
send it as is, or use an alternate encoding. What's going
on here?

Having successfully sent such a message (with inline web
pages), I will later on decide I'd like to send it to
someone else, and I do this by retrieving the message from
my 'Sent' folder and re-copying and pasting the complete
contents into a new message. I don't know of any other
way of converting a 'sent' message into a new message--do
you? In any event I will sometimes get a warning
that 'some of the images cannot be found', although all of
the images seem to be present during the composing of the
message, and I send it as such. However, when I later
retrieve this newly-sent message from the 'Sent' folder
for viewing, I find that many of the images have been
replaced by 'placeholder' frames. I'm not sure whether
this is the way the message is being received, or if this
just has something to do with the way such a message is
stored in the 'Sent' folder. Can you also explain these
phenomena for me?

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