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On 21/03/2010 08:46, tom wrote: > Gordon Henderson wrote: >> Computers were supposed to make our lives easier. >> >> Neither of these have happened. Oh! No way true. I export. The ease with which email (as pure text emails) solves export and allows 24/7/365 communications has speeded up business and made possible increase in global business. For example I export to Far East (for last 40 years) and now we work 24 hours out of 24 by simple action that if question received in UK on day 1 we answer on day 1 at end of day, they answer by end of Japan day 2 and I have their answer at start of my day 2 and so on. It cuts 'engineering ' time for projects by at least 3 months. It used to take 2 months (sea mail) for reply interchange, 2 weeks (air mail very costly), then fax (lots of special paper but big jump, but took maybe one to two days to get from fax machine to a specific person's desk with centralised fax machines, then email, cost in paper is only those hard records for tax/customs/export controlled goods (controlled technology, UF6 pumps, >60% Ni alloys etc)/insurance purposes. No computer no email, slow business. This is true benefit of computers to business. we interact by email do we not! -- Regards Eion MacDonald ( -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html