On Wed, 4 Oct 2000, Tony Duell wrote:
> phonecall...). It was produced by some Mickeysoft thing. Since I received
> it on a unix box there was no way I could see it as the sended intended
> (I assume) so I attacked it with the standard tools (strings, od, etc).
When I receive a mickeysoft-word document attached to e-mail, if I
happen to feel like reading it instead of just deleting it, I save it
to a text file and then do a search for words like "the" in order to
find out where the text is hidden.
> It turned out to contain _1 line_ of useful text and a reasonably short
> .sig . The rest of it was (I assume) font definitions, formatting, etc.
Such a waste.
> That was the worst ratio of 'signal' to 'noise' that I've ever seen...
Yes, worse than Usenet after the invasion of the AOLers years ago.
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Received on Tue Oct 03 2000 - 19:05:27 BST