11 Jan
2012
11 Jan
'12
1:04 a.m.
On Jan 10, 2012, at 5:34 PM, Fred Cisin wrote:
I use Outhouse for work stuff, because they DEMAND
that, and because of
the crap that I receive. For example, one of our top administrators will
create a one paragraph short document (changing the locaation of a
meeting) using Weird, then print it (on a color printer - it has a single
RED horizontal rule, the college logo, and his signature in blue ink),
then SCAN it, then ATTACH the uncompressed IMAGE scan as a PDF file to an
email whose subject is "FYI", and whose content is "Read this."
Otherwise, it would be VERY difficult to include a horizontal rule that is
NOT QUITE horizontal!
I'll do you one better: a friend of mine worked for a second language testing
institute that frequently got "snail" mail that was typed out in GMail (on the
web) and printed out, then mailed. He also frequently got emails of the type you mention,
only they'd gone an extra step and inserted the PDF into a Word document.
From another missive on the same day:
"The state mandate for "Information Competency" doesn't apply to us,
because all of our staff already use the latest version of Microsoft
Office, and are fully Information Competent."
Alas, the campus that I am currently at doesn't have a bell tower.
Was the Tower of Art taken? I hear the Librarian has a pretty good heave these days.
I really need to apologize to the entire list. I had
always ascribed lack
of trimming to simple human laziness - we just don't bother, because it
"isn't important". But, we really need to defenestrate the authors of the
"modern" email clients - what they are doing to their own users is
criminal. Gmail has misrepresented Liam (below) as being uncooperatively
snarky (which I may have deserved), when it is actually their software
that is the true miscreant.
He's also using his phone, with which I can sympathize; I use my iPhone occasionally,
which is theoretically better about block deletes, but isn't really. I just sit my
finger on the "delete" key for paragraphs at a time instead; it's actually
easier. Which is why I don't reply to the list much when I'm away from my main
machine.
I occasionally contemplate just moving back to Eudora on my LC III, but alas, I'm too
lazy. I'd still use PINE for most of my home email if it would display the HTML mail
that people insist on sending; I wish I had the option to ignore it.
- Dave