Jacek Piskozub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
>Peter Lairo wrote:
>
>> Gervase Markham wrote:
>
>>> b) A signature appears at the end of a document, by analogy with paper
>>> documents. Everyone knows that.
>> No, in all of our reports, the signature comes after the report
>>text, THEN come the supporting documents (tables, lab analyses,
>>copies of coorespondence, etc.).
>>
>
>Well, attachments do come after the signature. I see no problem here.
According to the RFCs, attachments should be able to be inserted
anywhere in the document, so you should be able to say something like,
"Here's the spreadsheet I was telling you about", followed by an
attachment, and then "And this is a relevant graph", followed by another
attachment.
Sadly a lot of non-fully-RFC compliant email/news software mistakenly
assumes attachments come at the end, so for example with Outlook
Express, if it finds an attachment followed by some more text, that text
appears an a second attachment!
By all means force outgoing attachments to be put at the end by the
software, if preferred, but mail/news clients should be able to
interleave body text and attachments for incoming messages if they are
to comply with the RFCs.
Neil
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