[volunteers] One out of four Jobs postings

[Don Marti]

begin Lisa quotation of Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 10:53:01AM -0700:
> On Fri, Aug 17, 2007 at 09:51:30AM -0700, Rick Moen wrote:
> 
> > It _is_ a bit ironic.  But there are large numbers of
> > MS-Windows desktop users who always reflexively, without
> > thinking, include content by file-attaching something from
> > disk, without even thinking about its format.  They know about
> > Clipboard, but find use of file-attachment easier.  Easier
> > wins, from their perspective.
> 
> Yes, and it's amazing.  I find this incredibly annoying even
> when I *am* using a windoze machine to read the emails ---
> mainly because I often have to double-click and wait for word or
> excel to open up, just so I can read four or five lines of text.

There's always mutt and catdoc.  Example config in
this list discussion:
  http://lists.netisland.net/archives/plug/plug-2000-10/msg00286.html

(Yes, a large fraction of the traffic on Linux mailing
lists is about what it is and isn't acceptable to
send to Linux mailing lists.  SVLUG isn't the only
list like that.)

> In most cases, I have concluded that I just have to live with
> it, but, as Rick said, if I am not being paid, and it's a
> significant inconvience for me and, especially when the sender
> in benefiting from the exchange and I am not, I ask for a resend
> in a more reasonable format.

If I'm not actually getting paid by the person sending
the file, then "Our security system wouldn't let me
open your attachment" generally works.

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Don Marti                    
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