• (cs) in reply to jimmy
    jimmy:
    About the email error for an EDI message.... The real WTF is EDI; it's a communication protocol still used in the healthcare and retail industries 30-40 years after it was created, and quite possibly the worst / most ambiguous standard ever created. It's just God awful... pray that you never have to work with it.

    EDI is not ambiguous. It is complicated because the data set it models is complicated.

  • (cs) in reply to Darth Superstition
    Darth Superstition:
    jimmy:
    About the email error for an EDI message.... The real WTF is EDI; it's a communication protocol still used in the healthcare and retail industries 30-40 years after it was created, and quite possibly the worst / most ambiguous standard ever created. It's just God awful... pray that you never have to work with it.
    I have prayed I never have to work with EDI. Pray I don't pray further.

    I LOL'd

    (Mind you, EDI has earned a lot of programmers a lot of money over the years, me included.Believe it or not, I know of businesses that are only just embarking on EDI this year & seem to regard it as exciting new technology)

  • (cs)

    Splitting hairs here, but is "You can't afford TO NOT ..." actually correct in any English dialects?

  • (cs) in reply to A Formerly-Satisfied Reader
    A Formerly-Satisfied Reader:
    I remain repectfully yours, Bert Glanstron

    The combination of the relatively serious & valid post combined with the above is really fucking funny. Made me laugh, anyway

  • Daniel (unregistered)

    Am I the only one nazi enough to notice Jigar's, Q: "If yes, what is the name and your relationship?" A: "NA"

    ??

    The name is "N" and the relationship is "A"?

  • Randy Snicker (unregistered) in reply to Someone You Know
    Someone You Know:
    Ã:
    They don't give options to unicorn lovers, Remy Martin.

    Okay, clearly I've missed something. Why are people calling him Remy Martin instead of Remy Porter?

    It is considered polite to answer, even if it just the booze talking.

  • Analog Pro (unregistered)
    "Well," writes Nicole, "that's one way to decorate the house."
    It is quite natural for the sloppier kind of people, who leave their underwear around the apartment, to try to them with the décor.
  • frits (unregistered) in reply to A Formerly-Satisfied Reader
    A Formerly-Satisfied Reader:
    To Whom it May Concern,

    I have noticed that over the last couple of months the quality and frequency of the articles on this site have dropped dramatically. One or the other would probably be understood; but the templating and outright copying of past articles his reduced the satisfaction in the content, causing the following side-effects in formerly-satisfied members:

    1. Failing to check in on a regular basis
    2. Conversion to "internet trolls"
    3. The loss of even more satisfied members, increasing the ratio of trolls even more. At the best, this has caused the forums to be saturated with posts attempting to convert any article or statement into a past meme (from when thedailywtf.com contained amusing content). At the worst, it causes any serious post to be ridiculed in an attempt to pick a fight.

    I encourage you at minimum to take these two basic steps:

    1. Resume the daily posting of articles.
    2. Perform a quality check consisting of spelling, grammar, and readibility.

    I remain repectfully yours, Bert Glanstron

    Who hasn't done something like this?

  • A Small Error (unregistered) in reply to A Formerly-Satisfied Reader
    A Formerly-Satisfied Reader:
    To Whom it May Concern,

    I have noticed that over the last couple of months the quality and frequency of the articles on this site have dropped dramatically. One or the other would probably be understood; but the templating and outright copying of past articles his reduced the satisfaction in the content, causing the following side-effects in formerly-satisfied members:

    1. Failing to check in on a regular basis
    2. Conversion to "internet trolls"
    3. The loss of even more satisfied members, increasing the ratio of trolls even more. At the best, this has caused the forums to be saturated with posts attempting to convert any article or statement into a past meme (from when thedailywtf.com contained amusing content). At the worst, it causes any serious post to be ridiculed in an attempt to pick a fight.

    I encourage you at minimum to take these two basic steps:

    1. Resume the daily posting of articles.
    2. Perform a quality check consisting of spelling, grammar, and readibility.

    I remain repectfully yours, Go away and grow up.

    Sincerely Bert Glanstron

    FTFY

  • boog (unregistered) in reply to A Formerly-Satisfied Reader
    A Formerly-Satisfied Reader:
    To Whom it May Concern,

    I have noticed that over the last couple of months the quality and frequency of the articles on this site have dropped dramatically. One or the other would probably be understood; but the templating and outright copying of past articles his reduced the satisfaction in the content, causing the following side-effects in formerly-satisfied members:

    1. Failing to check in on a regular basis
    2. Conversion to "internet trolls"
    3. The loss of even more satisfied members, increasing the ratio of trolls even more. At the best, this has caused the forums to be saturated with posts attempting to convert any article or statement into a past meme (from when thedailywtf.com contained amusing content). At the worst, it causes any serious post to be ridiculed in an attempt to pick a fight.

    I encourage you at minimum to take these two basic steps:

    1. Resume the daily posting of articles.
    2. Perform a quality check consisting of spelling, grammar, and readibility.

    I remain repectfully yours, Bert Glanstron

    I'm pretty sure I would have strangled the penguin before you got to step 2.

  • Matt Westwood (unregistered) in reply to A Formerly-Satisfied Reader
    A Formerly-Satisfied Reader:
    To Whom it May Concern,

    I have noticed that over the last couple of months the quality and frequency of the articles on this site have dropped dramatically. One or the other would probably be understood; but the templating and outright copying of past articles his reduced the satisfaction in the content, causing the following side-effects in formerly-satisfied members:

    1. Failing to check in on a regular basis
    2. Conversion to "internet trolls"
    3. The loss of even more satisfied members, increasing the ratio of trolls even more. At the best, this has caused the forums to be saturated with posts attempting to convert any article or statement into a past meme (from when thedailywtf.com contained amusing content). At the worst, it causes any serious post to be ridiculed in an attempt to pick a fight.

    I encourage you at minimum to take these two basic steps:

    1. Resume the daily posting of articles.
    2. Perform a quality check consisting of spelling, grammar, and readibility. 3) Execute a cease and desist on all gay-ass unicorn links.

    I remain repectfully yours, Bert Glanstron

    FYI: Added to the list of demands.

  • Sonic Sledgehammer (unregistered) in reply to A Formerly-Satisfied Reader
    A Formerly-Satisfied Reader:
    To Whom it May Concern,

    I have noticed that over the last couple of months the quality and frequency of the articles on this site have dropped dramatically. One or the other would probably be understood; but the templating and outright copying of past articles his reduced the satisfaction in the content, causing the following side-effects in formerly-satisfied members:

    1. Failing to check in on a regular basis
    2. Conversion to "internet trolls"
    3. The loss of even more satisfied members, increasing the ratio of trolls even more. At the best, this has caused the forums to be saturated with posts attempting to convert any article or statement into a past meme (from when thedailywtf.com contained amusing content). At the worst, it causes any serious post to be ridiculed in an attempt to pick a fight.

    I encourage you at minimum to take these two basic steps:

    1. Resume the daily posting of articles.
    2. Perform a quality check consisting of spelling, grammar, and readibility.

    I remain repectfully yours, Bert Glanstron

    Yeah, of the 5 people that still read this silly site, 4 are trolls.

  • frits (unregistered) in reply to Sonic Sledgehammer
    Sonic Sledgehammer:
    A Formerly-Satisfied Reader:
    To Whom it May Concern,

    I have noticed that over the last couple of months the quality and frequency of the articles on this site have dropped dramatically. One or the other would probably be understood; but the templating and outright copying of past articles his reduced the satisfaction in the content, causing the following side-effects in formerly-satisfied members:

    1. Failing to check in on a regular basis
    2. Conversion to "internet trolls"
    3. The loss of even more satisfied members, increasing the ratio of trolls even more. At the best, this has caused the forums to be saturated with posts attempting to convert any article or statement into a past meme (from when thedailywtf.com contained amusing content). At the worst, it causes any serious post to be ridiculed in an attempt to pick a fight.

    I encourage you at minimum to take these two basic steps:

    1. Resume the daily posting of articles.
    2. Perform a quality check consisting of spelling, grammar, and readibility.

    I remain repectfully yours, Bert Glanstron

    Yeah, of the 5 people that still read this silly site, 4 are trolls.
    I'm pretty sure there's at least 10 people that still check this site on a weekly basis. Your not too good at math, are you?

  • Grammer Nazi (unregistered) in reply to frits
    frits:
    Sonic Sledgehammer:
    A Formerly-Satisfied Reader:
    To Whom it May Concern,

    I have noticed that over the last couple of months the quality and frequency of the articles on this site have dropped dramatically. One or the other would probably be understood; but the templating and outright copying of past articles his reduced the satisfaction in the content, causing the following side-effects in formerly-satisfied members:

    1. Failing to check in on a regular basis
    2. Conversion to "internet trolls"
    3. The loss of even more satisfied members, increasing the ratio of trolls even more. At the best, this has caused the forums to be saturated with posts attempting to convert any article or statement into a past meme (from when thedailywtf.com contained amusing content). At the worst, it causes any serious post to be ridiculed in an attempt to pick a fight.

    I encourage you at minimum to take these two basic steps:

    1. Resume the daily posting of articles.
    2. Perform a quality check consisting of spelling, grammar, and readibility.

    I remain repectfully yours, Bert Glanstron

    Yeah, of the 5 people that still read this silly site, 4 are trolls.
    I'm pretty sure there's at least 10 people that still check this site on a weekly basis. Your not too good at math, are you?
    Frankly, "your" not too good at grammer.

  • Someone Who Can't be Bothered to Log In From Work (unregistered) in reply to Grammer Nazi
    Grammer Nazi:
    frits:
    Sonic Sledgehammer:
    A Formerly-Satisfied Reader:
    To Whom it May Concern,

    I have noticed that over the last couple of months the quality and frequency of the articles on this site have dropped dramatically. One or the other would probably be understood; but the templating and outright copying of past articles his reduced the satisfaction in the content, causing the following side-effects in formerly-satisfied members:

    1. Failing to check in on a regular basis
    2. Conversion to "internet trolls"
    3. The loss of even more satisfied members, increasing the ratio of trolls even more. At the best, this has caused the forums to be saturated with posts attempting to convert any article or statement into a past meme (from when thedailywtf.com contained amusing content). At the worst, it causes any serious post to be ridiculed in an attempt to pick a fight.

    I encourage you at minimum to take these two basic steps:

    1. Resume the daily posting of articles.
    2. Perform a quality check consisting of spelling, grammar, and readibility.

    I remain repectfully yours, Bert Glanstron

    Yeah, of the 5 people that still read this silly site, 4 are trolls.
    I'm pretty sure there's at least 10 people that still check this site on a weekly basis. Your not too good at math, are you?
    Frankly, "your" not too good at grammer.
    Well, if that isn't irony, I don't know what is.

  • My Name (unregistered) in reply to Someone Who Can't be Bothered to Log In From Work
    Grammer Nazi:
    frits:
    Sonic Sledgehammer:
    A Formerly-Satisfied Reader:
    To Whom it May Concern,

    I have noticed that over the last couple of months the quality and frequency of the articles on this site have dropped dramatically. One or the other would probably be understood; but the templating and outright copying of past articles his reduced the satisfaction in the content, causing the following side-effects in formerly-satisfied members:

    1. Failing to check in on a regular basis
    2. Conversion to "internet trolls"
    3. The loss of even more satisfied members, increasing the ratio of trolls even more. At the best, this has caused the forums to be saturated with posts attempting to convert any article or statement into a past meme (from when thedailywtf.com contained amusing content). At the worst, it causes any serious post to be ridiculed in an attempt to pick a fight.

    I encourage you at minimum to take these two basic steps:

    1. Resume the daily posting of articles.
    2. Perform a quality check consisting of spelling, grammar, and readibility.

    I remain repectfully yours, Bert Glanstron

    Yeah, of the 5 people that still read this silly site, 4 are trolls.
    I'm pretty sure there's at least 10 people that still check this site on a weekly basis. Your not too good at math, are you?
    Frankly, "your" not too good at grammer.

    Frankly, you got trolled. Except if you are a troll yourself. Then I got trolled. Damn trolls.

  • Teh Ego (unregistered) in reply to boog
    boog:
    A Formerly-Satisfied Reader:
    To Whom it May Concern,

    I have noticed that over the last couple of months the quality and frequency of the articles on this site have dropped dramatically. One or the other would probably be understood; but the templating and outright copying of past articles his reduced the satisfaction in the content, causing the following side-effects in formerly-satisfied members:

    1. Failing to check in on a regular basis
    2. Conversion to "internet trolls"
    3. The loss of even more satisfied members, increasing the ratio of trolls even more. At the best, this has caused the forums to be saturated with posts attempting to convert any article or statement into a past meme (from when thedailywtf.com contained amusing content). At the worst, it causes any serious post to be ridiculed in an attempt to pick a fight.

    I encourage you at minimum to take these two basic steps:

    1. Resume the daily posting of articles.
    2. Perform a quality check consisting of spelling, grammar, and readibility.

    I remain repectfully yours, Bert Glanstron

    I'm pretty sure I would have strangled the penguin before you got to step 2.
    Ewww! Go away you pervert!

  • K-Cuss (unregistered) in reply to AndyCanfield
    AndyCanfield:
    I've been through the Oracle Java install. IMHO the WTF is not the text, it's that Oracle insists on using check boxes that nobody can recognize as check boxes and nobody can tell checked from unchecked without experience. Cute little pictures of disk drives - who ever sees a disk drive these days? - just make it more confusing. Standard browser check boxes would make it much easier to understand.
    That's the standard installer (one of them?) used by e.g. Microsoft. Not in a browser, though.
  • (cs)

    TRWTF is that you need to increase display resolution to display the remaining tray icons when the tray has tons of empty space in it and is only occupying half the screen.

    Anyway, true = 1, and the object must have an address that's probably something like 0x40123458, so there's your range.

  • oheso (unregistered) in reply to ca1977a
    ca1977a:
    Splitting hairs here, but is "You can't afford TO NOT ..." actually correct in any English dialects?

    "Too cheap to afford a real advertiser" English.

  • Matthias (unregistered)

    sigh An apostrophe is not a quotation mark in the first place.

    These days, it'd improve the average correctness of English text on the web if our keyboards didn't contain any single quotes/apostrophes/accents whatsoever. :-/

  • Paul (unregistered) in reply to golddog
    golddog:
    I once worked for an organization which wanted me to append the "This email should only be read by the intended recipient..."-type of disclaimer to my emails.

    So I asked them exactly how a recipient was supposed to know they weren't the intended recipient and not read the message. Further, since the disclaimer comes after the message, even if they knew they weren't the intended recipient, how would they erase that reading, since they've already gotten through the message to see the disclaimer?

    And, of course, if they knew they weren't the intended recipient, and thus didn't read the message, they wouldn't know they shouldn't have read the message, which means they could have read the message, which meant they shouldn't have read the message - paradox alert...

    The ones which say you shouldn't 'use the message' obviously don't mean what they say either, because by acting on the 'delete this message' part you are 'using' the message, which they've just told you not to do - so what you SHOULD do is NOT delete the message, because if you DO delete the message, you are 'using' it which they've just told you not to do...

  • linepro (unregistered) in reply to jimmy

    Never worked with FIX then?

  • Bobbo (unregistered) in reply to Matthias
    Matthias:
    *sigh* An apostrophe is not a quotation mark in the first place.

    These days, it'd improve the average correctness of English text on the web if our keyboards didn't contain any single quotes/apostrophes/accents whatsoever. :-/

    But doing this would de-correctify non-English text.

    For example, how do I type Spanish accented characters, without accents? The character map? Yeah, because that's nice and simple for normal use.

  • (cs)

    Somebody went through the trouble of adding a "too many tray icons" message! WTF.

  • BentFranklin (unregistered)

    No one took the low hanging fruit so I might as well pluck it...

    TRWTF is tofu.

  • Stephen Cleary (unregistered) in reply to neminem
    neminem:
    I can top that: a year ago, one of our resellers sent the entire company an email. His signature contained his name, title, two phone numbers, email, url, and then two different, lengthy confidentiality agreements in which we were notified that his email might contain privileged or proprietary information, we should delete it if we got it in error, don't distribute it to anyone ever or even so much as mention its existence to anyone, etc.

    The contents of the message? "Happy birthday!"

    I kept that one in my "amusing emails" file.

    Nooo!!!

    Now they are coming for you! And you've implicated me by forcing me to read it without the appropriate disclaimer!

    Time to emigrate... sigh...

  • Highlighting the Important Part (unregistered) in reply to A Formerly-Satisfied Reader
    A Formerly-Satisfied Reader:
    To Whom it May Concern,

    I have noticed that over the last couple of months the quality and frequency of the articles on this site have dropped dramatically. One or the other would probably be understood; but the templating and outright copying of past articles his reduced the satisfaction in the content, causing the following side-effects in formerly-satisfied members:

    1. Failing to check in on a regular basis
    2. Conversion to "internet trolls"
    3. The loss of even more satisfied members, increasing the ratio of trolls even more. At the best, this has caused the forums to be saturated with posts attempting to convert any article or statement into a past meme (from when thedailywtf.com contained amusing content). At the worst, it causes any serious post to be ridiculed in an attempt to pick a fight.

    I encourage you at minimum to take these two basic steps: 1) Resume the daily posting of articles. 2) Perform a quality check consisting of spelling, grammar, and readibility.

    I remain repectfully yours, Bert Glanstron

    Ahem!

  • Rhywden (unregistered) in reply to Salami
    Salami:
    jimmy:
    About the email error for an EDI message.... The real WTF is EDI; it's a communication protocol still used in the healthcare and retail industries 30-40 years after it was created, and quite possibly the worst / most ambiguous standard ever created. It's just God awful... pray that you never have to work with it.

    EDI is not ambiguous. It is complicated because the data set it models is complicated.

    And he talks about EDI like it's a monolithic protocol. Does he mean ANSI X12, XML, VDA UN/EDIFACT? Does he mean X.400, OFTP, SMTP, HTTP or AS2?

    I worked for an EDI company, too, and the data managed by EDI is anything but simple.

    The problem is that every company has slightly or massively different systems with differing methods of data storage and differing ways of processing said data.

    For instance, one company internally stores price per piece, another stores proce per hundred pieces and another price per bundle, with a bundle having values between 1 and 1,000 pieces.

    Which means that if you want those companies to exchange data with each other, you'll need some kind of translation gizmo. And that's where EDI comes into play.

  • kastein (unregistered) in reply to boog
    boog:
    Andrew:
    What made me laugh is the beginning of the standard, useless, unenforceable e-mail confidentiality disclaimer at the end of the EDI mail. A lot of good that waste of space has done them, now hasn't it?

    When will people realize that once you stick an e-mail out on the interwebs, you no longer own or control it?

    So please, please, please stop adding a 14 line disclaimer to all of your e-mails. It's really annoying to get a one work message like "ok" or "thanks" followed by a 200 word essay on how you're going to sue my ass if I so much as even acknowledge your existence.

    Some organizations (try to) require it by policy. Some force it by having the mail server automatically append it.

    The best, however, are the combination of the two, when a user adds a disclaimer due to policy, but is unaware that the policy is already enforced automatically by the mail server. Now there are two 14 line disclaimers at the bottom of every email they send.

    Who hasn't worked with someone like this?

    I like the HEY GUYS, SAVE THE PLANET, DO YOU REALLY NEED TO PRINT THIS EMAIL? :):):) type messages more... especially the MS Comic Sans 72pt bright green ones I am treated to occasionally.

    Makes me want to print the damn email just to thumb my nose at the obnoxious idiot who sent it. Who the hell prints an email unless they need to anyways?

  • Sudo (unregistered) in reply to kastein
    kastein:
    Who the hell prints an email unless they need to anyways?
    My granddad...
  • itsmo (unregistered) in reply to kastein
    kastein:
    boog:
    Andrew:
    What made me laugh is the beginning of the standard, useless, unenforceable e-mail confidentiality disclaimer at the end of the EDI mail. A lot of good that waste of space has done them, now hasn't it?

    When will people realize that once you stick an e-mail out on the interwebs, you no longer own or control it?

    So please, please, please stop adding a 14 line disclaimer to all of your e-mails. It's really annoying to get a one work message like "ok" or "thanks" followed by a 200 word essay on how you're going to sue my ass if I so much as even acknowledge your existence.

    Some organizations (try to) require it by policy. Some force it by having the mail server automatically append it.

    The best, however, are the combination of the two, when a user adds a disclaimer due to policy, but is unaware that the policy is already enforced automatically by the mail server. Now there are two 14 line disclaimers at the bottom of every email they send.

    Who hasn't worked with someone like this?

    I like the HEY GUYS, SAVE THE PLANET, DO YOU REALLY NEED TO PRINT THIS EMAIL? :):):) type messages more... especially the MS Comic Sans 72pt bright green ones I am treated to occasionally.

    Makes me want to print the damn email just to thumb my nose at the obnoxious idiot who sent it. Who the hell prints an email unless they need to anyways?

    My favourite version of this is the one that asks me to 'consider the environment before printing this email' - I really do enjoy considering the environment (it's one of my favourite places) but I just don't have time to do it just before every email I print.

    BTW - Daily? WTF?

  • My Name (unregistered) in reply to itsmo
    itsmo:
    kastein:
    boog:
    Andrew:
    What made me laugh is the beginning of the standard, useless, unenforceable e-mail confidentiality disclaimer at the end of the EDI mail. A lot of good that waste of space has done them, now hasn't it?

    When will people realize that once you stick an e-mail out on the interwebs, you no longer own or control it?

    So please, please, please stop adding a 14 line disclaimer to all of your e-mails. It's really annoying to get a one work message like "ok" or "thanks" followed by a 200 word essay on how you're going to sue my ass if I so much as even acknowledge your existence.

    Some organizations (try to) require it by policy. Some force it by having the mail server automatically append it.

    The best, however, are the combination of the two, when a user adds a disclaimer due to policy, but is unaware that the policy is already enforced automatically by the mail server. Now there are two 14 line disclaimers at the bottom of every email they send.

    Who hasn't worked with someone like this?

    I like the HEY GUYS, SAVE THE PLANET, DO YOU REALLY NEED TO PRINT THIS EMAIL? :):):) type messages more... especially the MS Comic Sans 72pt bright green ones I am treated to occasionally.

    Makes me want to print the damn email just to thumb my nose at the obnoxious idiot who sent it. Who the hell prints an email unless they need to anyways?

    My favourite version of this is the one that asks me to 'consider the environment before printing this email' - I really do enjoy considering the environment (it's one of my favourite places) but I just don't have time to do it just before every email I print.

    BTW - Daily? WTF?

    You mean something like this?

    A mail from Google:
    The information contained in this communication is privileged and confidential. The content is intended only for the use of the individual or entity named above. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify me immediately by telephone or e-mail, and delete this message from your systems.

    Please consider the environmental impact of needlessly printing this e-mail.

  • oheso (unregistered) in reply to My Name
    My Name:
    itsmo:
    My favourite version of this is the one that asks me to 'consider the environment before printing this email'

    You mean something like this?

    A mail from Google:
    Please consider the environmental impact of needlessly printing this e-mail.

    No, "My Name"; your example actually makes sense, although it goeth less trippingly on the tongue. Itsmo's example, which I see everywhere, literally tells us to consider the environment and to print the e-mail. It's a total WTF! (And yes, there is an environmental impact to adding that message to every e-mail.)

  • itsmo (unregistered) in reply to oheso
    oheso:
    My Name:
    itsmo:
    My favourite version of this is the one that asks me to 'consider the environment before printing this email'

    You mean something like this?

    A mail from Google:
    Please consider the environmental impact of needlessly printing this e-mail.

    No, "My Name"; your example actually makes sense, although it goeth less trippingly on the tongue. Itsmo's example, which I see everywhere, literally tells us to consider the environment and to print the e-mail. It's a total WTF! (And yes, there is an environmental impact to adding that message to every e-mail.)

    Yep, yor* right, oheso - a recent example is in an email from a recruitment agency (who shall remain nameless). Verbatim, it sayeth: "Please consider the environment before printing this email".

    *My feeble attempt to resolve the your/you're conflict :)

  • Cbuttias (unregistered) in reply to Highlighting the Important Part
    Highlighting the Important Part:
    A Formerly-Satisfied Reader:
    To Whom it May Concern,

    I have noticed that over the last couple of months the quality and frequency of the articles on this site have dropped dramatically. One or the other would probably be understood; but the templating and outright copying of past articles his reduced the satisfaction in the content, causing the following side-effects in formerly-satisfied members:

    1. Failing to check in on a regular basis
    2. Conversion to "internet trolls"
    3. The loss of even more satisfied members, increasing the ratio of trolls even more. At the best, this has caused the forums to be saturated with posts attempting to convert any article or statement into a past meme (from when thedailywtf.com contained amusing content). At the worst, it causes any serious post to be ridiculed in an attempt to pick a fight.

    I encourage you at minimum to take these two basic steps: 1) Resume the daily posting of articles. 2) Perform a quality check consisting of spelling, grammar, and readibility.

    I remain repectfully yours, Bert Glanstron

    Ahem!
    Man, that blink tag is classic.

  • My Name (unregistered) in reply to itsmo
    itsmo:
    oheso:
    My Name:
    itsmo:
    My favourite version of this is the one that asks me to 'consider the environment before printing this email'

    You mean something like this?

    A mail from Google:
    Please consider the environmental impact of needlessly printing this e-mail.

    No, "My Name"; your example actually makes sense, although it goeth less trippingly on the tongue. Itsmo's example, which I see everywhere, literally tells us to consider the environment and to print the e-mail. It's a total WTF! (And yes, there is an environmental impact to adding that message to every e-mail.)

    Yep, yor* right, oheso - a recent example is in an email from a recruitment agency (who shall remain nameless). Verbatim, it sayeth: "Please consider the environment before printing this email".

    *My feeble attempt to resolve the your/you're conflict :)

    Oh, right. I didn't read it that way. Thanks for pointing me to it.

  • Anon (unregistered)

    I always thought the "Please consider the environment before printing" message indicated that the sender was hyper-paranoid about people hovering around the printers to steal other people's print jobs.

  • Cryptonomicon (unregistered) in reply to Barney Fife
    Barney Fife:
    I had to work with EDI by writing an application that performed some pre-processing of purchase orders that went out via EDI and it is most unforgiving. I am still in therapy because of it sucking 2 years of my life away.

    If you should see any job posting with those 3 letters, you should do only one thing: (in my best Monty Python voice) "Run away!".

    I recall a business-type article in the seventies titled "EDI or die".

    Judging from the comments here it should have been "EDI and die"'

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    This is not the greatest LED in the world no this is just a tribute. Couldn't remember the greatest LED in the world no no This is a tribute, oh, to the greatest LED in the world all right! It was the greatest LED in the world all right! And it was the best RADIO EDIT LED! The greatest LED in the world!

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  • (cs) in reply to Cryptonomicon
    Cryptonomicon:
    Barney Fife:
    I had to work with EDI by writing an application that performed some pre-processing of purchase orders that went out via EDI and it is most unforgiving. I am still in therapy because of it sucking 2 years of my life away.

    If you should see any job posting with those 3 letters, you should do only one thing: (in my best Monty Python voice) "Run away!".

    I recall a business-type article in the seventies titled "EDI or die".

    Judging from the comments here it should have been "EDI and die"'

    EDI means Electronic Data Interchange. The only alternative to EDI is printing the data, mailing it, and having someone on the other end data enter it.

  • (cs) in reply to Matthias
    Matthias:
    These days, it'd improve the average correctness of English text on the web if our keyboards didn't contain any keys whatsoever. :-/
    FTFY.

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