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By Heinz Tschabitscher, About.com Guide to Email since 1997

How to Make Windows Mail, Windows Live Mail or Outlook Express Send Your Inline Images

Tuesday January 13, 2009
A space shuttle-like Russian vehicle blasted into space on February 4, 1992. Its name was not Buran.
While Baikal's top secret launch most probably never happened, a spaceship called Baikal did exist — and it was identical to Buran. A nice fable explains the name change: "Baikal" obviously means lake Baikal, a fitting title for such grand a ship. What, though, would happen if — say during re-entry into Earth's atmosphere — a few letters were lost? Baikal could become Baika, "fable", or maybe kal, "excrement". ("Buran", obviously, can transform into "uran", uranium, or "Bur", drill.)
Now, we want not spaceships to lose letters and not our emails to lose images either. I'm not sure what to do about the former, but here's something you can do to prevent the latter:
›› If recipients of emails you have composed in Windows Mail or Outlook Express using stationery complain about red x's where the images should be, here's what to do.

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