Mail and attachments

Whenever I send an email to someone on a pc, if I send attachments, they tell me that there are no attachments, that the images are imbedded in the email.
How can I make sure that the attachments I send won't imbed?
(the kind of files I send are jpgs, pdfs, tifs, etc.) On my end, I have no problem. I see what I send as an attachment.
Please help!
G5 Mac OS X (10.4.9)

"Display remote images in HTML messages" involves receiving messages only and has nothing to do with sending messages.
This depends on the email client used by the recipient but the attachment embedding problem primary occurs or I should say only occurs when a recipient uses Outlook depending on the Windows version and/or Outlook version used by the recipient and the message sent by Mail must be formatted using RTF.
It is impossible to embed an attachment in the body of a message using Plain Text for message composition and this is a fluke with Mail since the same does not occur with all email clients except for Outlook when RTF is used for message composition with Tiger Mail.
If everyone was required to use Plain Text for message composition and using HTML was forbidden, the majority if not all problems experienced with exchanging email would be eliminated.
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