Silly system to block all .doc files. Some people do use Wordperfect and
WordPro from Lotus, among other products, and the doc files are not in
Word format... of course, we won't go into the whole lame issue of MS
designing their file format the way they did.
BTW, if this has not been reported, pasting text in Amirc 3.4 causes a
8000 0006 Guru.
jeh
On Sat, 15 Apr 2000, Samy Merchi wrote:
> On 15-Apr-00, Dan C. wrote:
> > As of that message above, that file happen to be in the list of
> > files being sent to annoy users or endanger their systems. In fact
> > this was based on numerous complaints--a problem.
>
> Not 'that file'. *All* .doc files.
>
> > Yes, I've seen "mistakes" on dal.net before and I sent them an email
> > to clear that up, but if that filename happen to be in the list for
> > a purpose, it was no mistake.
>
> The mistake was blocking all .doc files, not just ones that have
> caused problems in the past.
>
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