Emails

[agmlego.livejournal.com]

As promised here, below lie links to the various boilerplate emails I send out for various issues, including...

• ...the sending of Office attachments (first, second times): here
  
• ...the sending of Office attachments (third, fourth times): here
  
• ...the sending of Office attachments (fifth time): here
  
• ...the sending of Office attachments (sixth time): here
  
• ...the sending of unsubscribe (or personal/sensitive) messages to lists: here
  
• ...the polite asking for help in fields I am not familiar with: here
  
• ...the rude asking for help in fields I am not familiar with: here
  
• ...(NEW, adapted from here) the spamming of lists/address books with panic emails: here
  

Note that, though the files linked above are HTML files, the actual emails sent are in plaintext format. The rationale behind the HTML files above is the increased efficacy of hyperlinks when viewed in a web browser. The pages linked to are either reference materials (Google, Wikipedia, Snopes, ATLAS, etc.,) or rationale pages (like this), which are almost guaranteed to be up at all times. If you do use these documents, especially the rationale pages, please consider mirroring them on a server more personal to you. Feel free to modify these documents and the rationale pages as you see fit--I release them into the public domain.

Enjoy!

--
"Memento Mori Ergo Carpe Diem"

Comments

[guinevere33.livejournal.com]

I mean, I'm sympathetic to a point. My dad primarily uses Unix at work and, as he has no need for them, has neither Office nor OpenOffice installed on his primary machine. So he gets pretty pissed when the secretaries insist on saving their 1-line email text as a Word document and attaching it to a blank email (it helps that this is fucking stupid). However, the appropriate response is to send them an email - and reminders will be needed every now and again - that you can't read this file format without breaking out your laptop and ask them to please accommodate your weird self.

[trixtah.livejournal.com]

It annoys me too when people send me attachments in a specific format when they haven't ascertained that you actually want that format. Don't get me started on people relaying emails with PDF attachments at work which are 4-line memos (hello, we can all read them, but why the 60KB file???)

But yes, a simple one-liner in response saying "I don't want this kind of attachment, kthxbai" (or if you're a real techie, a mechanism of rejecting unwanted attachments at the gateway) will do fine, rather than a fucking boring polemic about the evuls of MS products.