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In my experience BCC: is for when you want to send the email to someone without the TO: recipient knowing anything about it. As in, you respond to (and quote) your boss's totally inappropriate suggestive email, politely-but-firmly declining by saying, "I won't be able to join you at the nudist camp this weekend due to a planned outing with my spouse and kids - but I hope you have a nice time!" and BCC: the VP in charge of HR. Now your butt's covered even if your boss's isn't.
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Heading to the mountains - good trick there, for a dolphin.
Share and enjoy.
:-)
(CAPTCHA: laoreet - a Laotian parakeet)
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Aah, but you forget: I too am in IT, and I satisfy the "IT Nerd" stereotype.
Thus, that's the game they play with me. :(
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TRWTF is using BCC instead of a distribution list
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HAIL! ANYONE can use a gun to hunt bugs! In Texas we hunt bugs with out bare hands...and teeth...and then we EAT 'EM!! Even though they're BIGGER'N US!!! RAW!!!! 'Cuz we's from TEXAS!!!!!
Soooo-eeeeee! PIG!!
(What? That's not the Texas football chant? Oh, dear...)
(CAPTCHA: quis - I wasn't paying attention, so got a zero on the quis)
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Bug? Is funny name for KGB. ???
CAPTCHA: oppeto - Oppeto the door, I wantogo out)
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Join the band, see the world. It's not just an extracurricular activity; it's an -adventure!-
CAPTCHA: ludus - I think I managed to make this discussion become quite ludus!
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No, I use a bow instead. And thanks for getting my sister killed, jerk!
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OMG, what a blast from the past. Thanks for that!
Apologies for a serious response: http://emailcharter.org/
סבא שלי כבוד כבושים על חשבון גדול
CAPTCHA: inhibeo
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So.. you're hunting Palestinians eh?
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You seem to be laboring under the curious delusion that substance is more important than style. We'll never make a politician out of you.
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A bad plan with a good Powerpoint presentation beats a good plan with a bad Powerpoint presentation every time.
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Since we're on the Katniss jokes: http://youtu.be/QjGk_jU6t5A
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CC exists so that a recipient can know who is "in the loop" -- and thus needn't forward the message on to a common person.
For example, if a construction-worker found out that his load of steel-girders for the big building was right on the low-end of the durability specifications he might send a message to: the architect/engineer, the lawyer, and his supervisor notifying them all of the situation and asking for their input on using the possibly questionable materials.
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BCC is also used for the private notification of security personnel.
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My favorite BCC WTF was the version of cc:Mail (by Lotus) for Mac in the early 1990's that included the Bcc header and all of its recipients.
Glad I learned that in a received email, and not a sent mail...
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This is why those who aren't "team players" don't make as much salary.
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The BCC is for your CYA offsite e-mail account where you keep a copy of everything you send.
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We hunt big bugs in the big bug bog where they beg, with big bog bug bags.
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That's not as silly as "It's my birthday - cake at kitchen", or "Today's my last day, chocolates at kitchen" emails sent to that very same mailing list.
In fact, we have an "official presence" in a country that is actually an employee that runs things from his own home. He actually sent a "I'm leaving, I'm sure there are some chocolates in my kitchen somewhere, if you happen to be around" email about a month ago...
Shachar
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Wha?
Or, as we say here in Israel: הא?
Shachar
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Maybe my new username will mean I won't get my post deleted.
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Pretty close. Obviously, YOU have worked in an office environment.
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There is nothing more embarassing than having someone reply all to an email you BCC'd them on!!!
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I [strikeout]happily[strikeout] ambivalently use Word for documentation. Most of its annoyingness can be switched off if needed (some of the auto-format is inconsistent, and you need to be prepared for headaches if you try to use tables). I tried StarOffice (a predecessor of LibreOffice) years ago, and although it was no worse than Word, it was no better either, and the auto-correction was wrong in a different way - so I stayed with what I knew. As Word is broadly available in my office, and I'm not producing massive publications (just Memos/Briefs and basic SDLC documentation) Word is perfectly adequate and can even forced to be reasonably presentable most of the time.
Of course, as with everyone else in the world, I find the post 2010 MS interface (with icons and toolbars rather than menus) somewhat cumbersome, but I guess it's just a matter of getting used to it....
I'm not a massive fan of MS, but I have to say (with perhaps the exception of Access** and Publisher) the Office software that they produce is (in most cases) perfectly adequate for most office tasks....
**Before using Access, always ask yourself "Can the same thing be done in Excel?". If the answer is "Yes", then use Excel. If the answer is "No", then consider what type of software you really need - If you really need a DBMS, then get a DBMS.
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although a good trick is to add a directive to someone not on the CC list so people assume there's BCC's - especially with a cryptic comment that makes people think you playing games behind their back, eg:
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Can't trust that "Sent Mail" folder as much as I can trust that offshore ISP....
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I have fond memories of a career-limiting feature in Lotus Notes where the "Reply" button sometimes, but not always, but quite often, does a "Reply to all".
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Is this going to be a stand-up fight, sir, or just another bug hunt? ;)
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Job == coder/developer. Pay == not enough. Prospects == abysmal.
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The only thing more WTF than the format is the specification.
No, it's not broken, the specification specifically states that both stylesheets and inline formatting should be used to preserve backwards compatibility. Kinda like using <FONT> tags with CSS so IE 2.0 can render your website.(am I doing this right?) CAPTCHA: genitus - how intelligent I feel after working with RTF
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Somebody right now, right this INSTANT, give this man a fucking Nobel prize. He has unraveled the dark mysteries of how to address an email to multiple recipients.
...
Holy fuck, there are five more posts explaining proper email etiquette, as usual, the comments are TRWTF.
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There be plenty of people out there who be knowing (roughly) how to operate ye motor car. There be very few that understand the first thing about tha driving.
Oh wait, maybe that was your point.
I will go out on a limb and say that there are excackery 0 people out there who know how to use email properly. Even those of youse who is usin it rite for the most times will sometimes been fucking it up, ergo youse know shit....
Fark - now I soun d like that dumb Indian cunt
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_Data_Link_Control
Sorry, showing my age again.
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WORD is the only simple document editor I have ever used that allows me to find/replace with tabs and newlines because I can enter ^p for paragraph, ^t for tab and ^l for newline.
I know there are regular expressions / sed replace etc. on some UNIX editors which enable you to do that too. Perhaps one day they'll actually put real regex/sed replacing in most regular editors.
Excel I find useful for casual data processing.
I don't know, however, why they are so driven to pushing stylesheets into the background so you can't find them. It does explain however why they haven't introduced "keep with previous" because it works well with stylesheets, when you wish to create a list with a heading and have the heading and all the list items on the same page (but don't care if there is a page break after the last list item).
Someone said they found tables messy but it would work well with a "shrink to fit" option, if they actually provided a decent implementation for text (much better than a text box) and tables are a far better way to format your document across columns (using hidden borders) than actual columns or typing in endless tab characters.
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My grandfather honours (??) on a big budget.
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כבוד does indeed mean "honor", but is very explicitly a noun. Since "honors" is a verb, I don't think that is a good translation.
כבושים means either "occupied" or "pickled", depending on context. Since this is not a sentence (Hebrew allows using a noun as the verb of the sentence. Despite that, there is no verb in sight in the entire thing), we have no context, so we'll go with "pickled", which is funnier.
חשבון means either "arithmetic" or "account", again, depending on context. In this case, "חשבון גדול" does translate better as "big account", so we'll go with "arithmetic" for the same reason as before.
Randomly transpose one of the nouns into a verb, and we get: My grandfather's honor got pickled by big algebra.
Which makes marginally more sense than what Google translate makes of it: My grandfather honor occupied at great expense.
Shachar
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As promised, what the bug hunt really meant. The company produces hardware for video streaming over cellular networks. Someone decided that it might be a good idea to just dump a few of those in some cars, and randomly drive around until bugs pop up.
Yes, it is a terrible idea. Thankfully, we no longer do those things (we do put two units running different versions of the software and compare them, but those are now called "drive tests", and only require one car).
Shachar
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And that is a perfectly fair discussion to have. On a general audience site like Facebook.
But, to take your (inevitable) analogy, please go to a car enthusiast forum and start lecturing people on the best techniques for refilling your gas tank, or the correct procedure for indicating before a turn. Let me know how that goes.
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If you just take a random noun and verb it, though, wouldn't it generally be an active verb? Granted, I say this not knowing any Hebrew, so maybe not in Hebrew, but I would just assume if you made "pickle" a verb, you'd get a sentence that was more like "My grandfather's honor pickled big algebra". (Hebrew doesn't inflect its nouns to denote what kind of object a noun is, does it?)
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I use "To" for people or DLs who have an action associated with the e-mail and "CC" for people who need to know something but don't need to actively participate. I think this is a pretty common thing.
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All verbs in Hebrew, whether they originate in biblical Hebrew, modern Hebrew, or have their roots elsewhere, conform to one of seven basic inflection structures (each with one of four tenses, either male or female, singular or plural). Yes, even verbs such as "to Google", when migrated to Hebrew, adopt one of those forms. This means that any Hebrew speaker instinctively knows how to distinguish "I googled(male)" from "She will google".
When I said that "כבוד" isn't a verb, I meant it is not in one of the forms that derives from one of those seven structures. It is not spelled in its verb form.
When a noun acts as a verb (loosely translated as a "nounical sentence"), it is mostly because of the lack of the verb to be in Hebrew. The sentence "I am awake" is phrased as "I awake", with "awake" taking the role of the operation of the sentence, despite not being a verb.
Yes, on reading what I wrote, I do realize that "awake" is an adjective, not a noun. The origin of my mistake is the name, and origin of the name, according to Wikipedia, is Arabic, where "nounical sentence" means something quite different. Like I said in my original comment, the original sentence did not parse that way either.
Shachar
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Because sometimes you want the recipient of an email to know that your email has been sent as a copy to some third party (e.g. a supervisor) and want the third party to know that they are just a third party and not directly addressed.
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About 15 years ago I was working for a multinational. One ignorant young pup in one sales office had no idea how big the company was, and thought that the "everyone" distribution list meant the 15 or so people in his office, not 6000 people in 20 countries.
So he sent out an e-mail to the effect that "Tonight we're all going over to the pub at 6:00. <coworker> will be bringing lots of <illegal drug> for sale, but if you need more than a gram or two please let him know in advance. He's got some with him now in case you need a lift before end of day."