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On Tue, 04 Oct 2005 20:16:14 -0500, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> Thanks, Greg. Too much work for me. Work that could be avoided
> if people just sent proper emails. I get PDF's, Word files, HTML
> and all sorts of crap now. It's not getting any easier to do
> email these days.
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People who send HTML attachments being duplicates of the text body
are like people who have halitosis (bad breath). Even their best
friends won't tell them that they have this problem and that they
need to do something about it. Most people who send dupe HTML's
are not even aware that they are doing it.
As for those who deliberately send M$-Word attachments instead of
just simple straight-up ascii text messages when no special formatting
is needed or desired by any of their email recipients, I have no idea
why they do that.
Don't they know that many of their email recipients don't have M$-Word
installed in their computers, and don't they know that even the people
who do have that most abominable program installed will have a difficult
time in trying to reply to their messages? The best way I know of for
replying to people who send emails like that is to convert the MS-Word
attachment to text by using Antiword and then manually applying the
">" prefixes to all the resulting lines of text in order to refer to
and to comment upon whatever they had to say.
BTW, if anyone knows of a good freeware program that will automagically
apply the ">" prefixes to all the lines of a text file, please let me
know about it.
It appears that there are many very badly mis-informed internet users
who assume that everybody who does email also does Window$, and that
M$-Word comes bundled free with Window$. I have experienced many times
the problem of having to deal with a lot of people like that. Some of
them thank me for correcting their misunderstandings. Many others flame
me for my criticising them for their doing what they very wrongly think
is adhering to what they think has become a widely accepted standard.
I often wonder how the extremely evil heresy ever got started about how
Micro$oft sets the standards. What the world needs now is a new Grand
Inquisition to punish all the heretics who are going about proclaiming
the false teaching that Bill Gates is the Vicar of the Internet.
Sam Heywood
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