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Robert Holtzman
holtzm at cox.net
Tue Jun 30 18:59:49 UTC 2009
On Tue, 30 Jun 2009, Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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> Dave Woyciesjes wrote:
>> Karl F. Larsen wrote:
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>>> Tom Sparks wrote:
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>>>> Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments.
>>>> but instead use OpenDocument File Formats or
>>>> use OpenOffice
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenDocument
>>>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice.org
>>>> http://www.gnu.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
>>> I have no understanding of what your doing but not sending Windows word
>>> and powerpoint documents is silly. Open Office is what I use all the
>>> time to open these Windows files. It works great!
>>>
>>>
>>> 73 Karl
>>
>> (Zooom...) right over his head...
>>
>> Why does that not surprise me?
>>
> Zoom right over your head. Why was Open Office written??????
Settle down, Karl. The reason he doesn't want Microsquish formats is
philosophical, not technical and I couldn't agree more.
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