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Clair Archive - Posting 000016.txt from 2001/10

From: "Teresio Alberto" <teresio.alberto@-----.it>
Subj: [clair] Re: clair malfunction
Date: Fri, 12 Oct 2001 12:53:25 -0400

> When you're sending a message with Outlook Express:
> Select Format and then select "Plain Text".

Thank you to Mark for the advice. If I am succesful, you all will read this
message.
Ciao a tutti
Teresio Alberto
Nizza Monferrato Asti

There is a widely told joke in the computer industry that goes like this: A
man is flying in a small airplane and is lost in the clouds. He descends
until he spots an office building and yells to a man in an open window,
"Where am I?" The man replies, "You are in an airplane about 100 feet above
the ground." The pilot immediately turns to the proper course, spots the
airport and lands. His astonished passenger asks how the pilot figured out
which way to go. The pilot replies, "The answer the man gave me was
completely correct and factual, yet it was no help whatsoever, so I knew
immediately he was a software engineer who worked for Microsoft and I know
where Microsoft's building is in relation to the airport." When seen in the
light of the tragedy of Flight 965, the humor of the joke is macabre, yet
professionals in the digital world tell it gleefully and frequently because
it highlights a fundamental truth about computers: They may tell us facts,
but they don't inform us.
-- Alan Cooper, "The Inmates are Running the Asylum "

> I am a subscriber of the clair list and I can't send any message to the
list
> May you help me?
> I can get messages, but I cannot read the ones I send.
> Thanks in advance for your interest
> Ciao
> Teresio Alberto Nizza Monferrato Italy
>
> teresio.alberto@-----.it