>I agree absolutely, entirely, completely. But... I'm already at a >disadvantage in my work as a translator chosing not to run Word. Even >before email, when computers became a standard, secretaries started >delivering docs on diskette for translation with ridiculous formatting >expecting translators to do far more than merely translate, e.g. keep the >format and plus, charge the same or less for more work.
You are a perfect candidate for the times that I say "to hell with hating MS" and would recommend you just buy a copy of Word. I hate MS... but I use Windows and MS Office all the time at work... simply because it does the job I need it to do... and in the end, isn't that really the purpose of a computer anyway. >One solution my ISP came up with recently when an email to my client, >expected within minutes by them, was already late a couple of hours (I >finally had to deliver by hand in a diskette) was to offer me a piece of >virtual real estate in which to ftp my docs and let my client know the >exact url from where they could download it. He said that given the >difficult communications �thanks to spam jamming of ISPs� this was >becoming the way to deliver large and small docs. In my opinion, this is the way it always should have been. And the "inventors" of email, I suspect inteded it this way as well. Being able to send attachments with email is really a hack. Email was never designed to handle attachments... that is why Email is a 7 bit ascii system, and you have to encode your 8 bit binary attachments in order to send them along. But like you said, it takes education, and most people don't feel like learning to do things the right way, they want the quick way out of things. (Maybe, had early developers realized how widespread email was going to be, they might have done things differently... this is one place that AOL did things right... internally AOL handles attachments much more along the lines of FTP. The attachment is stored in binary format, and downloaded on demand, rather than being sent along inline as part of the email) -chris <http://www.mythtech.net> ___________________________________________________________________________ To unsubscribe send a mail message with a SUBJECT line of "unsubscribe" to <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> or <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
