Mail glues photo attachments to e-mails

In Lion, Mail glues photo attachments to e-mails, i.e. they cannot be opened / saved by many recipients (Windows users – yes, there are still some of them – and webmail services).
Is there a workaround except zipping each and every pic?
Thank you!
Peter

The problem here than is on the recipient's end. I would expect even the most basic email application or service to understand Plain text emails. They don't get any simpler than that.
Regards
TD

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