Date: Wed, 18 Apr 2001 23:36:30 +0100 (BST) From: Duncan Barclay <dmlb@dmlb.org> To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org> Cc: Dan Langille <dan@langille.org>, freebsd-chat@FreeBSD.ORG, Rahul Siddharthan <rsidd@physics.iisc.ernet.in> Subject: Re: Just an observation - MUA's seen in the lists Message-ID: <XFMail.010418233630.dmlb@computer.my.domain> In-Reply-To: <xzpwv8i7z3x.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
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On 18-Apr-01 Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote: > Duncan Barclay <dmlb@dmlb.org> writes: >> Unfortunately, the rest of the business world doesn't agree :-(. > > Most people will accept a PDF document as long as they don't need to > edit it. True. <anecedote> We have one particular client (I work for an IC consultancy) that spent a week trying to get us to send them the Word document. Their excuse: that the PDF wouldn't print on their printers...Eventually they came clean and said that they wanted to cut and paste the text and diagrams into the reports they generate for there customers. A pointless waste of time. </anecedote> > DES > -- > Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org > --- ________________________________________________________________________ Duncan Barclay | God smiles upon the little children, dmlb@dmlb.org | the alcoholics, and the permanently stoned. dmlb@freebsd.org| Steven King To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-chat" in the body of the message
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