Re: M$ Excel

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From: jrodman
Subject: Re: M$ Excel
Date: 22:32 on 12 Sep 2006
On Tue, Sep 12, 2006 at 05:03:19PM -0400, Cory Myers wrote:
> >Worse IMHO, is customers/people/boneheads that have switched to  
> >html-only
> >mail, just so they can force this font upon us, as they like it so  
> >much.
> 
> Or those who've switched to HTML-only mail for the purpose of
> delighting in formatting goodies. I'm not so miserly as to mind the
> waste of bandwidth (although there is that); it's the sheer
> unreliability of it that annoys me. The number of times I've advised
> clients to stick with plain text, since it won't end up garbled and
> mangled and is just as easy to send from web mail as anything else...

(continuing the topic drift)

In the middle of a long technical discussion about some sort of
development problem in a clunky API that the customer is misusing:

Me: I often become unclear as to who is saying what in these email
    exchanges.  Could you consider indenting or prefixing the text of
    different speakers differently, as I do?

Them: Oh, your text is in blue.  My mext is in green.  The other
      engineer's text I keep pasting in is in red.



I hope it is obvious that none of the text was any color but black in my
not-insane mail reader.

-josh

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