This one time, at band camp,
Craig White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I thought that you were going to educate me on some newer method of
> transmitting virii via email but I see now that you are talking about
> activity that was typical 2 or more years ago that should be arrested by
> other metho
On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 22:47, jdow wrote:
> From: "Craig White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 18:09, jdow wrote:
> > > From: "Guy Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > >
> > > > Some people actualy get mail from sources outside of these lists for
> work.
> > >
> > > There IS an advantag
>
> {^_^} <- An old curmudgeonette who's heard too many tails of email woe
> for her tastes./
//
Well, this has been a long time coming. Tales, not tails!!!
(Of course, you did that on purpose)
This one time, at band camp,
"jdow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> {^_^} <- An old curmudgeonette who's heard too many tails of email woe
> for her tastes.
umm, lets just drop it,
Its just a .sig file, its meaningless
You don't ne
From: "Craig White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 18:09, jdow wrote:
> > From: "Guy Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >
> > > Some people actualy get mail from sources outside of these lists for
work.
> >
> > There IS an advantage to gray hair. I get to play Palace Guru to the
company
>
On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 18:09, jdow wrote:
> From: "Guy Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
> > Some people actualy get mail from sources outside of these lists for work.
>
> There IS an advantage to gray hair. I get to play Palace Guru to the company
> masses. For email I strongly recommend to managemen
From: "Guy Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Some people actualy get mail from sources outside of these lists for work.
There IS an advantage to gray hair. I get to play Palace Guru to the company
masses. For email I strongly recommend to management that documents should
be zipped and attached that w
I was speaking generically, Guy. Overriding the way the recipient wishes
to view messages with sender's own preferences is not necessarily
"communicating" what the sender wishes to communicate. Often it communicates
arrogance and hostility (and sometimes an obsession with "cute".)
{^_^}
- Orig
jdow wrote:
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>
> I have a simple solution, Guy. If I cannot read the message in an editor as
> dumb as Notepad without significant effort on my part I toss it unread. I
> note that this has applied to an increasing number of messages on these Red
> Hat lists. Sometimes I get moved
I only send mail in ascii as far as I know.
I use mozilla with default text delivery, so the fonts should be set on your
side not mine. {0-0}
Guy
jdow wrote:
> From: "Guy Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>
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>
>
> What has that got to do with not using HTML in mail? The intent is to u
From: "Guy Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Absolutely, PDF creates bloated documents that require a lot of CPU to
compile
> there output {It is just a variety of PostSCript}. Besides PDF documents
are
> not that easy to read from the console, are they. I used to have a job
where I
> maintained hand
From: "Guy Fraser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Rob Unsworth wrote:
> ---%<...snip...
>
> >
> > To use that sig, I would be advocating the use of HTML in mail, as the
> > mail itself or as an attachment.
> >
> > I oppose both.
>
> True that, but at least you don't have to go out and buy a new version of
Mr. Adam ALLEN wrote:
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 20:24, Kevin Waterson wrote:
This one time, at band camp,
Now that is a funny sig. If you saw American Pie ;)
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Unfortunately the ignorant masses I work with insist on me using lotus
notes because it is 'secure', the com
Rob Unsworth wrote:
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To use that sig, I would be advocating the use of HTML in mail, as the
mail itself or as an attachment.
I oppose both.
True that, but at least you don't have to go out and buy a new version of
office every year to keep up with each new perversion of Word,.
Gregory L. Hering wrote:
Dear Rob,
If you already know this, this may sound patronizing, but that's not my
intent...
The article is not about preventing the spread of viruses (unless you
consider Microsoft Corporation a virus).
Yes, and why not.
They are simply complaining abo
I agree I dont want MSWORD attachments.. but I dont want PDF or HTML or
for that matter __ANY__ attachments at all!.. if it can't be said in
ASCII text, put a link to some webserver that has the file. This is
especially important on a large mailing list such as this one. Email
attachments suck
On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 07:17, Rob Unsworth wrote:
> > I'm missing something here... In what way would a word macro virus be
> > converted into anything html? I think you don't quite know the
> > technology (or maybe you know something that no one else knows).
>
> Can you guarantee that any H
On 23 Jan 2003, Joe Klemmer wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 04:36, Rob Unsworth wrote:
>
> > When I first saw this sig I was all for supporting the FSF in this
> > campaign. That was until I read the web page. I found that in part it
> > is self defeating, because it contains the following.
> >
If it has to be formatted, rtf format
Buck
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On Behalf Of Mr. Adam ALLEN
Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 8:45 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Excellent signature
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 20:24, Kevin Waterson wrote
On Thu, 2003-01-23 at 20:24, Kevin Waterson wrote:
> This one time, at band camp,
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> >
> > Unfortunately the ignorant masses I work with insist on me using lotus
> > notes because it is 'secure', the company is also a slave to the Microsoft
> > machine even though thei
On 24 Jan 2003, Iain Buchanan wrote:
> On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 19:06, Rob Unsworth wrote:
> > On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> >
> > > This signature which I saw on Kevin Waterson's mail should get the
> > > message across.
> > >
> > >
> > > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPo
On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 04:36, Rob Unsworth wrote:
> When I first saw this sig I was all for supporting the FSF in this
> campaign. That was until I read the web page. I found that in part it
> is self defeating, because it contains the following.
>
> "Receiving Word attachments is bad for you b
On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 01:36, Rob Unsworth wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
> > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>
> "To convert the file to HTML using Word is simple..."
>
> Apparent
Fri, 24 Jan 2003 09:36:54 + (UTC)
From: Rob Unsworth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Excellent signature
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This signature which I saw on Kevin Waterson's mail should
On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 19:06, Rob Unsworth wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> > This signature which I saw on Kevin Waterson's mail should get the
> > message across.
> >
> >
> > Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
> > See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy
On Thu, 23 Jan 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> This signature which I saw on Kevin Waterson's mail should get the
> message across.
>
>
> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
> See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
When I first saw this sig I was all fo
From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> across. Or at least until some manager tells me to 'tow the line'
Um, there is a charm to the humorous vision of "towing the line,"
especially if the line is attached to the "line of bull the marketdroids
keep feeding me." However, the general phrase is "toe the line"
This one time, at band camp,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> Unfortunately the ignorant masses I work with insist on me using lotus
> notes because it is 'secure', the company is also a slave to the Microsoft
> machine even though their flagship console can and does run Linux. This
> signature which
Unfortunately the ignorant masses I work with insist on me using lotus
notes because it is 'secure', the company is also a slave to the Microsoft
machine even though their flagship console can and does run Linux. This
signature which I saw on Kevin Waterson's mail should get the message
across. Or
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