[Gllug] Email Formats was Where has the modem gone

[Simon Stewart]

On Wed, Nov 21, 2001 at 05:54:33PM +0000, Jim Bailey wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> >I have to agree with David here. I spent 8 months reading almost=20
> >unreadable
> >email while on the OU's First Class conference/mail system (First =
> Class=20
> >was
> >the name of it). Individuals where colouring text in about several=20
> >different
> >colours per email like yellow on white just because they can. I tried =
> to
> >tell them that this was silly and that one word replies where a =
> complete
> >waste of everyone's time they gave me the old free speech bit and that=20=
> 
> >they
> >could do what they want blah blah and this was on what was meant to be =
> a
> >technical list where content is paramount. The best information on the=20=
> 
> >world could be displayed in forty different colours splashed all over =
> a=20
> >page and I would not read it as my eyes cannot quite grasp what on =
> earth=20
> >is going on.
> 
> I would say that these people were stupid and will probably work in NTL=20=
> 
> call centres.

Grief, Jim! You're using the character set!

:P

Cheers,

Simon

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