Re: Comments on Microsoft Open Source document
Simon Kenyon (simon@koala.ie)
Thu, 05 Nov 1998 16:30:06 -0000 (GMT)
On 05-Nov-98 Riley Williams wrote:
> I have a simple solution to this - if somebody sends me an attachment
> that I can't extract, I send them a message saying so and advising
> them to send it in a format that I can extract. As far as I'm
> concerned, the onus is on the SENDER to ensure the recipient can use
> what they're attaching, not on the recipient to waste time doing other
> people's jobs for them...
yeah
like i'm going to tell a potential costomer (one that i've been chasing for
MONTHS) and who finally sends me the spec that i've been practically been begging
him to - i'm going to tell him to get a better mailer and send it again
right!
what i did do was extract it with outlook (once i'd configured it and got pop3d to
work and ...) and THEN sent him email telling him to get a better mailer :-)
resistance is futile - you *have* been assimilated
--
simon
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