[conspire] Screenshot mentality

[Nick Moffitt]

Deirdre Saoirse Moen:
> On Mon, May 20, 2013, at 01:07 PM, Rick Moen wrote:
> > In this case, the absurdity lay in the fact that I'd already
> > provided raw data, but was in essence told that only a bitmapped
> > picture of that same raw data would suffice.
> 
> Which: I've seen. Frequently see. I shake my head every time.

If I were feeling charitable, I'd probably chalk that one up to the
belief that pasted-in ASCII had actually been typed in by someone
reading off the screen.  It could be an attempt to avoid transcription
error.

Seems vanishingly rare to me, but I can believe it's common someplace.

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