Re: Another mailing list idea

[jpcarr@xxxxxxxxxxxx]

>With all the problems we all have with Windows software and the alternate
>applications a lot of people are using, maybe we need a
>PC-Software-for-Midrange-Professionals mailing list?
>
>I just had a dialog box pop up that said "Channel two is connected".  I
have
>no idea what that means, and worse, no idea where to find out!!
>
>Phil

As the first anecdote on the proposed list, I offer the below.  It was a
part of a news letter I get.   Ya, gotta read it.

Ya know,  MS should have stuck with their usual tactic of have the output
of their new version of their product unusable by older versions.

John

1. MICROSOFT SPREADS THE WORD -- TOO MUCH
Many users of Microsoft Word 2000 have noticed an annoying phenomenon
-- their documents keep getting bigger every time they're edited. Even
deleting the entire content of a document doesn't reduce its size.
Microsoft recommends using "Save As" to re-save an oversized document
into another file, which then reduces the size back to a respectable
number of bytes.

One day, not long ago, a hapless Word 2000 user reported to this
editor that he had learned the hard way why Word documents stay so
large -- they retain all the text you ever typed in that document. He
discovered this when a potential employee called to ask why the salary
offer he received was less than that offered to another applicant for
a similar job. The Word users had done what we all do -- cloned a
letter from another similar letter -- never suspecting that Word 2000
would betray them.

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