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Re: [LUG] I thought this might get a bit of a reaction

 

Neil Stone wrote:
> Grant Sewell wrote:
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>> Neil Stone wrote:
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>>> Tom Potts wrote:
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>>>> On Wednesday 10 December 2008 12:26, Benjamin M. A'Lee wrote:
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>>>>> Of course, most of the things that people use docx/pdf for could be
>>>>> represented as plaintext, or at a push HTML, with no loss of
>>>>> information.
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>>>> PDF - Pointless Document Format.
>>>> My screen is not A4 or A5 and my printer driver can format anything to fit on 
>>>> whatever paper its got in it thanks - assuming your document is so badly 
>>>> written I have to print it to make sense of it.
>>>> Plaintext is probably better than PDF in that it wont cost me (in terms of CPU 
>>>> and diskspace) to edit or otherwise utilise your document but sensible use of 
>>>> the hyperlink will make all our lives easier - assuming I cant get my 
>>>> computer to talks to your computer and leave me out of it altogether....
>>>> Tom te tom te tom
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>>> Plain text is all well and good, until you need an image...
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>> Presuming this works under Thunderbird (overkill?  Yeah, but I don't 
>> like pine and mutt):
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>> What it is? :D
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>> (A quick convert with GIMP)
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> No idea, it got line wrapped..
Oh. It was just some picture of a piggybank I found lying around. I 
guess you were right... ascii doesn't do images very well. :D

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