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Re: Attachments

And Frank, thicko that he is, only using XyWrite, didn't think to look
under Tools. And now, having looked under Tools, under the guidance of such
clever people, has found that sure enough, there are no settings to change
the problem.

But, caring for their input, he has taken the advice of one or two people
who made constructive suggestions and has downloaded Eudora to see if it
could solve his problem.

I have to say, again, that the antisocial and intolerant tone of many
people in this sort of forum makes one fear for the future of electronic
communication.

Daniel Say is a glittering exception to the above. He maintains the
internationally accepted standards of dialogue: respect, empathy, concern,
structured responses.


At 14:17 21/06/00 -0400, you wrote:


>

Rene, quite justifiably irritated, intones:

>
> "I think it is rude to send attachments to a mailing list, not to ask
the offender to stop it.

>
> "And I can not believe there is no solution. Look at your Microsoft
Mail. There must be some menu item like "options" or `preferences'. Go
there and look carefully. There has to be a switch for this. Look for
euphemisms like "formatted e-mail" or some such."

>
>
I agree that the rudeness does not lie with Rene. And I agree with Rene's
assessment of the situation as well. It would seem to me that a poster,
before asserting there is no solution to his or her problem (even going so
far as to proclaim, "If I knew how, I
would") ought to have realized that, since 99.9% of the posts come sailing
through _without_ attachments, a simple solution is quite likely at hand.

It has, BTW, been my experience that Microsoft products usually place
their preferences/options menus under the "tools" menu.


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Leslie Bialler, Columbia University Press (which is in no way responsible
for the opinion stated above)

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