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Re: What email-format do current government departments want?

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In article <mg3bib$4p4$1@dont-email.me>, Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> wrote: 

> On Wed, 08 Apr 2015 04:42:14 +0000, no.top.post wrote:
> > Their written instructions are to email completed Form X, which is
> > available as http://............pdf
> > 
> > Since Form X must be signed, it must be converted to paper and back to
> > bytes. How else would you do this?
> > 
> > Since Form X states: "attach to this form a typed document..";
> > must the several of such needed "typed documents" be converted from
> > plain text, to pdf, and be attached to the email?
> > 
> > Do I understand correctly that this government department
> > cannot/will-not read plain-text email; they require all text to be
> > delivered as separate attachments?
> 
> The signature is graphical and can't be represented in old-school
> text only. Your related message to them about the pdf document
> could still be plain text.
> 
> Adobe and others have some forms of electronic signing, but that's
> probably not what the gov you mention wants. As you say, to sign you
> have to print it out, write your signature, scan it in. Then attach
> the resulting image or pdf to the email you send to them.

 From: Aleksandar Kuktin 
 ...
> Isn't snail mail an option? It looks like it could be a more optimal 
> solution in this case.
... 
 From: Ant 
 > Or fax!
..
This wasn't a technical question as is seen by my careful wording
[that's why i *HATE* Debian 'lose talk': "you may want to..tra..la..la"]
"What email-format do current government departments want?"

It's a socio/political question.
Since nothing works in Africa other than by bribery, one could start
by asking what system the big vendor/s would have 'sold' the South
African government, to be able to claim to have the latest most
modern computerised-system. [Which is non-functional like the rest...
form above function: shave your head & wear 60's pointy Italian shoes,
and if that doesn't work, try a suit & then a Mbenz....]

I suspect that eg. 5 'documents' are expected to be sent as 5 separate
attatchments, and NOT as I've done here by just pasting the essential
contents of the 3 responses [above].

So perhaps I could find out if/how the same system is actually working
somewhere.

Or as the lawers say: "why use ten words, when ten thousand will do".

==WDYS?

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What email-format do current government departments want? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2015-04-08 04:42 +0000
  Re: What email-format do current government departments want? Joe Beanfish <joebeanfish@nospam.duh> - 2015-04-08 13:47 +0000
    Re: What email-format do current government departments want? Aleksandar Kuktin <akuktin@gmail.com> - 2015-04-08 16:05 +0000
      Re: What email-format do current government departments want? Ant <ant@zimage.comANT> - 2015-04-09 07:13 -0700
    Re: What email-format do current government departments want? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2015-04-10 03:26 +0000
      Re: What email-format do current government departments want? Keith Keller <kkeller-usenet@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> - 2015-04-10 17:49 -0700
        Re: What email-format do current government departments want? no.top.post@gmail.com - 2015-04-12 02:24 +0000
      Re: What email-format do current government departments want? Aleksandar Kuktin <akuktin@gmail.com> - 2015-04-12 17:35 +0000

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