FreeLists / arachne / [arachne] Re: My misbehaving ISP (base64 test)

["Glenn McCorkle" <glennmcc@xxxxxxxxxx>]

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FYI,

The problem we are discussing does not exist for any of the
stated reasons as they apply to the sender himself.

The problem exists due simply to the fact that Joe is sending these
messages from his employers' computer.

The solution is simple............

Joe,
Please stop sending messages to these lists from work.

Instead,
please send all messages to these lists using your own computer at home.

In addition....
Please always use Arachne to compose and send said messages.

After-all.... these _are_ Arachne mailing lists, and you _are_
one of the developers working on Arachne.

Therefore it stands to reason that you really _should_ be
using Arachne to correspond with lists concerning Arachne.

BTW,
Please relay the first link from my email signature to your employer. <g>
http://www.delorie.com/listserv/mime/


On Wed, 05 Oct 2005 13:35:52 -0500, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:

> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!

> 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.

> <snip>

> 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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