Re: Fwd: [gardeners] Thhe attacment is my signature file,
Margaret Lauterbach (gardeners@globalgarden.com)
Wed, 28 Feb 2001 13:25:52 -0700
I bought my computer last July, and agree with Wendy's attitude toward
vcards. Margaret L
At 03:17 PM 2/28/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Just to weigh in on this--I have a brand new computer w/plenty of hard
>drive space. But I hate these vcards--every time I get a message from
>someone who sends them, my computer throws it in my attachments folder,
>and when I go to find an attachment I actually need to open, I have to
>wade through the "junk" (that's not to say that your business card is
>"junk," but given that I don't really need it, it's "junk" to me...). It
>wouldn't be such a problem if my computer recognized that I already had a
>version of someone's business card, but it doesn't, so I end up with the
>virtual equivalent of a drawerful of the same business card. Which I then
>have to take the time to "clean out". And, as Alan says, I'm nervous
>about them because they might be viruses--I have virus software, but it
>takes time & energy to update it regularly, and I don't always remember.
>
>So, Ron, thanks for taking it off. I'm not quite sure how vcards are a
>useful business tool, but then again I'm not in business...
>
>Someone mentioned that you can configure Eudora to automatically delete
>such things using filters--can you walk us through that?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Wendy in Indiana