Saving the Embedded Files and Scripts in Newsgroup Posts

Saving Embedded Images and Sounds

  1. Go to Tools, then Options, then Send and set your email to plain text.
  2. Make sure the box next to Reply To Message in Same Format is NOT checked.
  3. Highlight the Header of the message, right click and select Forward.
  4. Then go to File in the menu bar of the forwarding message and select Save Attachments.
Putting Them Into A Script
  1. Next, steal the script you like by selecting Ctrl F2.
  2. Here is what you would see in Notepad for an uncomplicated post:
    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
    <HTML><HEAD>
    <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type>
    <STYLE></STYLE>
    <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3401" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
    <BODY background=cid:040101beaca6$04f890a0$ae4294ce@bnovak>
    <BGSOUND src="cid:040201beaca6$04f890a0$ae4294ce@bnovak" balance=0 loop=-1 volume=0>
    </BODY></HTML>
  3. Outlook Express references the embedded files,usually between quotation marks and starting with cid.
  4. Replace the cid references for the background file and the sound file with the paths to the files you saved, including the file names and the quotation marks:
    <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
    <HTML><HEAD>
    <META content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" http-equiv=Content-Type>
    <STYLE></STYLE>
    <META content="MSHTML 5.00.2614.3401" name=GENERATOR></HEAD>
    <BODY background="C:\windows\Desktop\image.jpg">
    <BGSOUND src="C:\windows\Desktop\sound.mid" balance=0 loop=-1 volume=0>
    </BODY></HTML>
  5. Nowsave the notepad file and name it with a htm extension, such as: Stationery.htm

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