On 10/14/05, Jerome BENOIT <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The main issue is that I have to be very polite with the correspondant: > he uses Pine and believes that the LaTeX source is not attached because > it is displayed. Period.
Being polite isn't the same thing as humoring a delusion. You can very politely say, "Actually, Pine's just trying to be helpful by displaying a plain-text attachment directly, since most of the time that's what the sender and receiver want, but it's really there as an attached file. If you hit <magic key combination> to get the list of attachments, you should see it there." It's not rude, or disrespectful, or anything other than clearing up an easy to make misconception. Now, if you have to humor the delusions of your correspondant, that's another matter. -- Michael A. Marsh http://www.umiacs.umd.edu/~mmarsh http://mamarsh.blogspot.com
