Date: Fri, 4 Sep 1998 09:47:36 +0930 From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> To: John Birrell <jb@cimlogic.com.au> Cc: allenc@verinet.com, chat@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: mail's fate (was Re: E-day problems: rtld-elf dlsym() broken?) Message-ID: <19980904094736.O606@freebie.lemis.com> In-Reply-To: <199809040024.KAA04193@cimlogic.com.au>; from John Birrell on Fri, Sep 04, 1998 at 10:24:06AM %2B1000 References: <19980904093109.L606@freebie.lemis.com> <199809040024.KAA04193@cimlogic.com.au>
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On Friday, 4 September 1998 at 10:24:06 +1000, John Birrell wrote: > Greg Lehey wrote: > [...] >> ... but that doesn't mean I like >> receiving it: it just means I can read it when I get it, which is more >> than I can say for the Microsoft Wart attachments I keep getting. > > As a matter of policy, I reply to those asking for a format I can read. > I have one (ex-)supplier who only provides technical notes in that > way. I no longer pay them for support and I no longer install their > products. That's fine as long as you have the choice. I do some work for Compaq. The money's good, and I find it enables me to put up with the emetic nature of their mail system. But I still have to reply and ask for open formats when they send messages in proprietary formats. Greg -- See complete headers for address, home page and phone numbers finger grog@lemis.com for PGP public key To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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