RE: Email Parcel Post is Good!
that and a small perl script are how i get all the internet drafts and rfcs as they are published.
Do you seriously expect a marketing VP to write perl?
that and a small perl script are how i get all the internet drafts and rfcs as they are published.
Do you seriously expect a marketing VP to write perl?
no. i expect someone to tell the marketing vp that emailing large documents is "wrong" and that someone will fedex them some floppies. or a zip disk. or a jaz disk. or a dlt tape containing a bzip2'ed copy of a hpodc cpio archive. in halfword swapped format. :) but not email. my opinion. -- |-----< "CODE WARRIOR" >-----| codewarrior@daemon.org * "ah! i see you have the internet twofsonet@graffiti.com (Andrew Brown) that goes *ping*!" andrew@crossbar.com * "information is power -- share the wealth."
On Fri, 25 May 2001, Andrew Brown wrote:
that and a small perl script are how i get all the internet drafts and rfcs as they are published.
Do you seriously expect a marketing VP to write perl?
no. i expect someone to tell the marketing vp that emailing large documents is "wrong" and that someone will fedex them some floppies. or a zip disk. or a jaz disk. or a dlt tape containing a bzip2'ed copy of a hpodc cpio archive. in halfword swapped format. :)
but not email.
my opinion.
How about if it absolutely, positively has to be there within the hour? The nifty thing about email is that it has cost Fedex and the other shipping companies an untold amount of business. It has contributed to the increase in productivity Greenspan likes to mention. Limiting such service is not a good idea IMHO. --Mitch NetSide
Mitch Halmu wrote:
How about if it absolutely, positively has to be there within the hour?
Guess what: You can't absolutely, positively guarantee an e-mail will be delivered in an hour. -- Tired of Earthlink? Get JustTheNet! Nationwide Dialup, ISDN, DSL, ATM, Frame Relay, T-1, T-3, and more. EARTHLINK AMNESTY PROGRAM: Buy a year, get two months free More info coming soon to http://JustThe.net, or e-mail me! B!ff: K3wl, w3'v3 r00t3D da N@vy... 0h CrAp, INC0M!Ng $%^NO CARRIER
Date: Fri, 25 May 2001 10:56:15 -0700 From: Roeland Meyer <rmeyer@mhsc.com>
Do you seriously expect a marketing VP to write perl?
I think that his point was content transfer methods, not perl scripts. Eddy --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. EverQuick Internet Division Phone: (316) 794-8922 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 +0000 (GMT) From: A Trap <blacklist@brics.com> To: blacklist@brics.com Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature. These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambots. Do NOT send mail to <blacklist@brics.com>, or you are likely to be blocked.
that and a small perl script are how i get all the internet drafts and rfcs as they are published.
Do you seriously expect a marketing VP to write perl?
I am a reminded of one of Dave Barry's more notable statements: "I am not for one minute suggesting that Donald Trump picks his nose. That's why he has a *staff* for god's sake." Good thing it's a long weekend coming, no? regards, Ted
Roeland Meyer wrote:
that and a small perl script are how i get all the internet drafts and rfcs as they are published.
Do you seriously expect a marketing VP to write perl?
"The marketoids won't cooperate" has never, ever been a valid argument for anything. These people are the same people who yelled at me because I wouldn't make a particular web site compatible with IE 2.0 a couple years ago, even though IE 2.0 and 3.0 are very badly broken in some ways (yes, the wonderful person who argued with me on this was a particularly clueless marketoid, but there are a lot of them out there that aren't any better). And I sure wouldn't expect the marketoids to be able to write perl, but something like what Mr. Brown describes would be trivial for someone who actually programs in perl, and it could be deployed on a corporate mail server as a backend filter of some sort. -- Tired of Earthlink? Get JustTheNet! Nationwide Dialup, ISDN, DSL, ATM, Frame Relay, T-1, T-3, and more. EARTHLINK AMNESTY PROGRAM: Buy a year, get two months free More info coming soon to http://JustThe.net, or e-mail me! B!ff: K3wl, w3'v3 r00t3D da N@vy... 0h CrAp, INC0M!Ng $%^NO CARRIER
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