[chapter-delegates] Please, no more PDF attachment !

[Irwan Effendi]

Dear Dean,

That is not the problem. I have Adobe Reader, Word Viewer, etc,etc...

It's just that the attachment won't open and I believe that up to the third 
attempt anyone should have realized that the problem is in the sending, not 
the file, and stop attempting to send it and upload it instead.

After all, the current best practice on mailing list regarding files is to 
upload it somewhere and send the link. That's why yahoogroups and other 
list server have files section.

Also, keep in mind that ADOBE and MS are Proprietary while text file and 
HTML are not.

So, for future attachments, please just send the link or the text. If you 
absolutely have to send something in form attachment and it absolutely has 
to have the formatting, send it in form of HTML, it will saves us all a lot 
of work and confusion.


Regards,

Irwan Effendi


On Sun, 6 Mar 2005 21:08:13 -0600, "Dean McCall" 
<dean.mccall at nvision2020.com> wrote :

> So maybe another marketing piece that should be considered by ISCO to 
spend
> its monies is to ship a standard tool box CD where needed for people that
> have these sorts of issues with pay per call connections?  Just a
> thought...but downloading acrobat reader, word viewer, etc and burning to 
CD
> don't seem like that big an issue to me...and CD's are cheap...I bet some
> chapters would be willing to take that sort of thing on for other
> chapters...the only thing would be the shipping...how much to ship a CD to
> Indonesia?
> 
> Dean
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Irwan Effendi [mailto:hero_tsai at mainsyscon.net] 
> Sent: Sunday, March 06, 2005 8:35 PM
> To: chapter-delegates at lists.isoc.org
> Subject: [chapter-delegates] Please, no more PDF attachment !
> 
> Dear all,
> 
> It is very painful having to download attachments that don't work using a
> phone line that must be paid by minutes, especially if they are all the 
same
> file with different versions.
> 
> Therefore, please stop sending PDF, WORD, POWERPOINT or WHATEVER FORMAT 
THAT
> IS USING SCRIPTING IN IT.
> 
> Please stick to plain text or html pages, or upload the file to the web 
and
> send the link.
> 
> Thank you for the attention and sorry for yelling.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Irwan Effendi
> Indonesian Chapter
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