On Sun, 13 Jan 2002, Nadav Har'El wrote: > I always get people sending me emails with these kinds of formats. I try > to convince these people that the formats they are using are formats for > *editing*, and since I don't intend to edit the stuff they send me, they > should use some sort of hardcopy format, like Postscript or PDF; Not to
eyery workstation in the world, at a probability of 90%-95%, has a Word Viewer program of some sort. much less than 20% have a running PDF or Postscript viewers, much less a proper PDF or postscript export filter (those usually cost extra or are plain crappy, like the internal M$ EPS driver) don't be a bonehead please. the solution is plaintext or at the worst case HTML. > mention that Postscript and PDF are much more standard, can be viewed or more standardIZED, but not de-facto more popular. > P.S. If any of you have been trying to use ivrix.org.il in the last few days, > the machine is down since Thursday because some smart-alec unplugged it(!). > And just when it reached 330 days uptime ;) the bastard! I can assure you no Alecs are working at Actcom (maybe an Alexei or two), especially not the smart ones. come join forces :) -- (@- Please do NOT cc: me answers posted also to the list //\ Send me private mail at <YourName (at) ira.abramov.org> v_/_ to send me spam please use: cat spam.txt > /dev/hda ================================================================= To unsubscribe, send mail to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word "unsubscribe" in the message body, e.g., run the command echo unsubscribe | mail [EMAIL PROTECTED]
