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On Tue, Sep 11, 2007 at 02:45:37PM +0100, Richard Davey wrote:
> Hi Matt,
> 
> Tuesday, September 11, 2007, 2:41:57 PM, you wrote:
> 
> > Just had a colleague tell me that he received a screenshot from a  
> > client of ours which he couldn't open.  It was some kind of bitmap  
> > format, but nothing he could find could open it.  Rather than waste  
> > more time, he emailed the client and said he couldn't open it, could  
> > they save it as a GIF or JPEG for him.  They emailed back saying they
> > didn't know how to save as a JPEG, so they printed it out, scanned  
> > the printout, and were sending him the PDF of the scan!
> 
> Fair play to your client for actually coming up with a solution under
> their own steam though :)

But... Considering the way say the government, or the NHS works, where
people constantly copy/write much the same thing down on a new and
differently coloured pieces of paper before passing it on to be filed
forever somewhere maybe no-one will ever look it's probably not that
bad.

It seems surprising in some way that us techiewebfolks here might
think it's odd to print and then scan something. To carbon copy office
workers or shorthand writers (they must have to just go write it all
out in full later) it must only be a minor inconvenience.

Not sure what's worse, folks who care about wastage, folks who don't
care about wastage, or folks who just don't even notice or consider it
at all?

</ponder>

        Steve