Re: Left Margins for e:mail messages

[John Weiland <weiland -at- CISCO -dot- COM>]

Actually, you should help Marita set up her printing environment to
set the margin. Your message, as shown below, creates a problem on the
right margin in an X.400 ISO-standard e-mail reading environment.

Flames to devnul.

John Weiland  (weiland -at- cisco -dot- com)  "If standards are outlawed, only
                                    outlaws will have standards."



>           Greetings,

>           One of my colleagues, Marita, just sent an e:mail request to
 everyone
>           in our department, which I think is worth sharing with y'all.  The
>           essence of her request is as follows:

>           "Please set your left margin large enough (10 or 15) so that the
>           printed version can be three-hole punched without removing any of
 the
>           letters in the body copy.  I can then save the printed copy in a
>           three-ring binder for future reference."

>           I currently save my printed copies in a file folder, and haven't
 been
>           concerned with this problem.  I have, however, changed my left
 margin
>           because I think her request is valid, and it also makes e:mail
>           messages easier to read on the computer monitor when the text is not
>           butted up against the left side of the screen.  We use margins on
 the
>           printed page, why not on the electronic page?  No response is
>           necessary!


>           Don Timmerman, dtimmerman -at- anl -dot- gov
>           Sr. Technical Writer
>           Argonne National Laboratory
>           Argonne, IL