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[Andrej Cuckov <andrej@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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Hello

I have been closely watching the "scene" lately, and begin to be fed-up with
situation, therefore this letter.

It all started Wed, 05 Oct 2005 13:35:52 -0500 when our Sam Heywood wrote:
--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 ...........
--end snip--


and it all finished Wed, 12 Oct 2005 11:29:47 -0500 when our Sam Heywood
wrote this too:
--snip--
Joe, (_note from andrej_: Joe da Silva)

I'll bet that all the bosses in the company you work for are getting
a lot of complaints from all the employees about how fed up they are
about how screwed up and misconfigured their mail server is.

The company could placate the employees very easily and fix the problem
without incurring much of any expense to the company.  Also the company
would benefit from increased employee morale if the company would just
simply fix the problem.

In addition to getting complaints from employees, the company is most
likely also getting a lot of complaints about their emails from customers
and businesses that the company corresponds with by email.

Almost all the people who receive emails sent by your company's computers
probably have a very bad impression of the company and its employees
because none of the emails conform to the expected standards.  The
recipients of the emails do not know that the screwed up emails are not
the fault of the employees who send them unless the employees explain
to everyone that their company's mail server is all screwed up and
misconfigured and that the company doesn't even want to fix it.

Even an email otherwise conforming to standards but being somewhat
poorly written and having a few spelling and grammatical errors would be
far more acceptable to most people than an email improperly sent as a
base64 attachment accompanied by a "winmail.dat" attachment.

The attachments are a PITA.

Why won't they simply fix the problem?

BTW, you have my permission and encouragement to forward this complaint
thru the proper channels to your company's CEO.  He should not be left
in the dark without knowing about one of the main causes of the very
serious problems that the company is suffering from.  Fortunately for
him and his company, this problem has a very easy and almost cost-free
solution.  Any consultants advising him otherwise are lying to him and
trying to rip-off the company and its stockholders.  A teen age computer
techie could fix the problem for him in about half an hour and the techie
would charge only about ten to fifteen bucks for saving the company.
--end snip--






My criticism will not go to the ISPs or to anyone else, but to our Sam
Heywood.

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I mean, Dear Sam Heywood,

who do you think you are to have the rights to tell others (inclusive me)
that "People who send HTML attachments being duplicates of the text body are
like people who have halitosis (bad breath)" ?

Who do you think you are to have the rights to *judge others* by "As for
those who deliberately send M$-Word attachments instead of
just simple straight-up ascii text messages when no special formattingis
needed or desired by any of their email recipients, I have no idea
why they do that."


Also, who do you think you are to have the rights to offend (into my
opinion) Joe da Silva with assumptions like "I'll bet that all the bosses in
the company you work for are getting a lot of complaints from all the
employees about how fed up they are...".
I mean what gives you the rights to even think that Joe is employed, that he
has a boss *in the company he works for* ,

Also, who do you think you are to have the rights to state: "Almost all the
people who receive emails sent by your company's computers
probably have a very bad impression of the company and its employees because
none of the emails conform to ..."


Are you aware *to whom* you are sending these emails, are you aware that you
are being so rude to the person who actually makes the arachne for me, you
and the others?

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Yes, there is  problem with the ISPs, yes there are bugs and unfinished
things,

and sadly enough, yes there is a Sam Heywood who just spills *bad breath*
onto this list.

All these is in my opinion.
If I am offending you Sam Heywood, please let me know, I am ready to talk.

andrej cuckov





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