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January 11th, 2004 by Hal

Back on January 7th, I promised to look into getting that Fortune article to you that I referenced in my posting Struggle to Get Lean at ArvinMeritor. Well, it was a little more complicated than I thought (of course). While Fortune allows me to email you the article from their website, I can't be taking your requests and sending them one at a time. So I investigated using an autoresponder. Not wanting to spend money, I checked out the no-pay versions. The first one didn't send attachments. The second one got hung up on PDF files. Finally, with some help from the tech support folks at sendfree.com I was able to tack on the delivery of a file to the paid version of the autoresponder we're using for the Project Authors Teleconference Series.

This is what you do. Send an email to leanstruggle@leanproject.sendfree.com. Leave the body of the email blank. You should get a PDF of the article in less than 20 minutes. If that doesn't work for you, then send me an email. Enjoy!

If you are reading this from a Bloglet email, then jump over to the weblog to see the changes I've made including the new Safety Everyday page.

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