On Sunday, Apr 13, 2003, at 01:51 Australia/Sydney, Herbert Graf wrote:

>> Herbert,
>>
>>>         Because it would be difficult to differentiate what Olin was
>>> quoting and
>>> what he was writing. You want to spend the time to add a '>' in front
>>> of
>>> every line??
>>
>> No! And I don't!!! I simply grab the text and choose Format, Increase
>> Quote Level. I have the tools I need to reply to any email (or file)
>> in
>> any format from anybody and I just do it!
>

>         Good for you, many don't. Remember, this is a resume, you want
> the person
> reading it to have to do AS LITTLE work as possible, few people out
> there in
> the business world are as competent as many of us here when it comes to
> stuff like this.

Interesting. Most people in the business world would be using a
computer no more than a few years old. On that machine, they would have
a browser and say, Outlook Express.- even the 6% of us on Macs have
these 2 basic tools.

His plain text resume could be viewed perfectly in any browser. If this
hypothetical employer was so useless that they could not do a Ctrl-C
and a Ctrl-V into an email and then simply format the text in such a
way to indicate it as the original message, then perhaps that's not the
sort of employer that Jai is looking for anyway.

>         Sorry, this convention still exists. Remember, with a resume
> you must make
> things as easy as possible.

I'll *try* to remember that. It was a no brainer for me.

Sean

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