[plug] For your amusement

[Jon L. Miller]

Leon, this is good, she should get a real laugh from it and I don't think
they are going to make you a job offer, those Americans especially in the
southern parts don't take to kindly of folks being SA (lol)....

Jon

>-----Original Message-----
>From: leonb at firestation.fdns.net [mailto:leonb at firestation.fdns.net]On
>Behalf Of Leon Brooks
>Sent: Saturday, June 24, 2000 6:02 PM
>To: Perth Linux Users Group
>Subject: [plug] For your amusement
>
>
>Irene Palmerini <irene at brilliantjobs.com> wrote:
>> We are representing an exciting St. Louis firm who is need
>of experienced
>> Java candidates.  If you are interested or know of any one
>please e-mail
>> your resume in MS Word format to irene at brilliantjobs.com
>
>1. Java I can do, but experienced in it I am not.
>
>2. I live in Australia, quite some distance from St Louis.
>
>3. I would mail the resume in HTML, which your MS Word can read.
>
>IMPORTANT - I do not send Word documents because:
>
>1. They are a serious security risk. The recipient can use versioning
>   to "rewind" the document and find out what it looked like during the
>   editing process (e.g., flippant things I crossed out, confidential
>   prices or passwords I typed into it).
>
>2. They can contain embedded nasty surprises, macro viruses and the
>like.
>
>3. They are not portable. Contrary to popular belief, not
>everybody owns
>   a copy of Word, much less a copy of the same version that you're
>   using. If I send you a Word document from a later Word than yours,
>   the odds are good that you won't be able to read it. If I am running
>   a Sun or Linux machine, Word does not run on it.
>
>4. Bill is rich enough. He set out into this cold hard world
>with "only"
>   $US 1,000,000.00 to his name and is worth about $US
>90,000,000,000.00
>   now (see http://photo.net/bg/ for details). I would rather support
>   someone who produces reliable software, or someone who
>actually needs
>   money, like the authors of SAIG Office.
>
>Cheers!
>
>--
>Linux will not get in the door by simply mentioning it... it must win
>by proving itself superior. We have no marketing department, our sales
>department is an FTP server in North Carolina and our programming
>department spans seven continents. Am I getting through? -- Signal11
>(/.)