On Mon, 2010-01-11 at 23:50 +0530, narendra sisodiya wrote: > From: The Reverend Father Martin Sylvester > > Sorry I was unable to read your attachment. I hope the following is useful! > > You sent me an email with an attachment in Microsoft Word format, > which is not a standard Internet format, but a proprietary one owned > by Microsoft, and protected by them so people can't be sure of reading > it properly unless they buy expensive Microsoft software. If you had > sent me your text inside a plain email (instead of as an attachment to > an email), or as a plain text, rich text, HTML, or PDF attachment, > then I would have been able to read it.
I have a filter set in my mail client to put all doc and docx files in spam. I *don't* read it and would like to take this opportunity to appeal to all free software supporters to follow this This is not to campain against any company, this is to make it clear to the technologists that any attempt to create or promote closed standards for controling digital access will be strongly opposed. Happy hacking. Krishnakant. _______________________________________________ network mailing list [email protected] http://lists.fosscom.in/listinfo.cgi/network-fosscom.in
