Friday, 2-JUN-2000 11:54:27.53
Shortly before the time above (in my timezone :-) ) John B. Macallister
wrote:
> >At 01:25 on 3 June, nop31382 wrote:
>
> >[ Full copy of my message, followed by a MSWord attachment ]
>
> >Can I issue a general plea for messages to the list to be in plain
> >text, and for people not to include the text of previous messages
> >except as far as is relevant? I can't read MSWord documents (I use
> >Unix) so I have no idea what nop31382's message said.
> My mail software can handle attachments and can even handle WORD
> documents
OK, but just because it can handle them doesn't mean they should be on
this list: many folks can't or don't want to handle them, and even if
they can, they are a waste of bandwidth and impractical for searching
saved messages for text strings.
> May I issue a general plea for people to remain in the present?
> but cannot yet handle attachments involving time travel.
> "At 01:25 on 3 June," ? It's only 2nd June here.
Probably needs a time zone or should express it as GMT or whatever. :-)
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