Patrick-

You've made a convincing case in a polite and direct manner.
Thank You!

-John

Boylan P wrote:

> I agree that the rather sarcastic comment from Ann was discourteous - but
> mailing Word (or similar) "attachments" to the List is at least as
> discourteous, if not worse. For the record, I couldn't read it either, and
> this was not due to any sort of "bad luck" as you imply.
>
> Over the months (and years) there have been several appeals asking
> everyone to post their full text only in the main body of the message in
> clear and universally readable ASCII text (or ISO text for those using
> European fonts).
>
> Very many email systems (an increasing number, I believe) will not open
> attachments - not least for security reasons.  My access is through one
> of the most powerful university networks in London - running at 4Gbits,
> not a 16K or 32K modem - but I didn't receive your attachment either. As
> policy, following bitter experience with both hacking attempts and virus
> transmissions, all binary attachments are intercepted by our firewall.
>
> It only takes a few second longer to save a Word (or similar) document
> as ASCII and insert this in the body of the message so that everyone can
> read it.
>
> Patrick Boylan
>
> ==========================
>
> On Tue, 14 Jul 1998, John Nichols wrote:
>
> > Ann:
> >
> > Your rude comments were very misguided and unprofessional.  Naturally, there
> > was an attachment that you were incapable of retrieving.  Better luck to you
> > next time.
> >
> > John