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[Robert Holtzman]

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!
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>>> 73 Karl
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>> 	(Zooom...) right over his head...
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>> Why does that not surprise me?
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> 	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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