Boston Linux Conference December 3-4

[bscott at ntisys.com]

On Mon, 25 Nov 2002, at 9:27am, hewitt_tech at attbi.com wrote:
> I completely concur with this sentiment but I would point out that we live
> in an era when appearances are more important than substance to many
> people (present company excepted).

  True.  Next question: Do I want to work for one of them?  :-)

> If someone sent their resume in plain text, it would hit the trash can
> immediately independent of whether they had the highest qualifications or
> not.

  I send MIME-encoded, dual-format text and HTML on the rare occasions when
I need to send formatted text via email to a recipient I do not know.  
Almost any software automatically does the Right Thing when presented with
such, regardless of platform or installed software.

  (Incidentally, I have see your above statement given almost word for word,
but with "MS Word" in place of "plain text".  The universe is not uniform.)

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Ben Scott <bscott at ntisys.com>
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