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Re: Best emergency email attachment to Android & iOS homes?

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"Frank Slootweg" <this@ddress.is.invalid> wrote in message 
news:d708gpFfp00U1@mid.individual.net...
> The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> wrote:
> [...]
>> Exactly.  I despise the vcard thing -- it's incredibly wasteful of
>> everything possible.  All I ever want is name / phone# / email address
>> in a simple text or pdf file.  It's a constant annoyance that I can't
>> easily convert Thunderbird's addressbook into a simple list of name and
>> email address (one name per line) without going through a spreadsheet
>> (LOTS of editing) and then a word processor to get a simple one-page
>> multi-column list of my 1500 contacts :-(
>
>  I don't understand the "LOTS of editing" bit.
>
>  I don't 'do' speadsheets myself,

You should, they are surprisingly useful.

> but isn't it trivial for a spreadsheet program
> to convert a CSV (or tabSV) file to a CSV/tabSV/
> <whatever> text file in the desired format?

Yes it is.

> Or you could export-import TB's addressbook to Windows Live Mail
> and export-import it back to TB in the desired format! (Just kidding!)
 

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Best emergency email attachment to Android & iOS homes? Mitch Kaufmann <mitch284@outlook.com> - 2015-09-28 18:19 -0400
  Re: Best emergency email attachment to Android & iOS homes? nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2015-09-28 18:22 -0400
    Re: Best emergency email attachment to Android & iOS homes? "Rod Speed" <rod.speed.aaa@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 10:15 +1000
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      Re: Best emergency email attachment to Android & iOS homes? The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2015-09-29 11:45 -0700
        Re: Best emergency email attachment to Android & iOS homes? Frank Slootweg <this@ddress.is.invalid> - 2015-09-29 19:52 +0000
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          Re: Best emergency email attachment to Android & iOS homes? The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2015-09-30 00:11 -0700
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              Re: Best emergency email attachment to Android & iOS homes? The Real Bev <bashley101@gmail.com> - 2015-10-01 11:04 -0700
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      Re: Best emergency email attachment to Android & iOS homes? "Sam Thatch" <st342@gmail.com> - 2015-09-30 11:15 +1000
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