5 Sep
2024
5 Sep
'24
5:29 p.m.
> cctalk is allowing attachments now? I was under
the impression that these
> were deliberately disallowed and filtered for bloat reduction or safeguard
> against possible malware distribution?
> I'd personally prefer no attachments on cctalk rather just post a link to
> somewhere they can be retrieved from if desired.
On Thu, 5 Sep 2024, Sellam Abraham via cctalk wrote:
I noticed that as well, and was wondering the same.
You are going to think that I am making this up. (I am not that
imaginative):
The VP of the college used Wordperfect to create a document that consisted of:
"The curriculum committee will meet Tuesday at 2:00 in room D252, instead of
D233."
He put a blue horizontal rule (line) across the page below the message.
He printed it out on a color printer.
He signed it.
He scanned the paper.
He put that as an attachment to an email.
He used a Subject: line of "FYI"
The body of the text of the email with the attachment was:
"See the attachment"
He sent the email to the faculty
(The paper was not quite aligned in the scanner, so the horizontal rule
had a slight "stair-step")
The first item on the agenda was a state mandate that we should teach
"Information Competency", in addition to a previous mandate of teaching
"Computer Literacy".
He opposed it, saying that "ALL of our students and faculty are
Information Competent and computer Literate"
He is not on this list.
In May 2013, I said, "Take this job and shovel it."
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Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin(a)xenosoft.com